The raven (Corvus corax)

Pity the poor raven. Though it ranks amongst cleverest of birds—a sentiment common to many mythological systems—has, by its blackness and its reputation for scavenging, found itself in the slums and trash-heaps of the modern imagination.

Reprinted from Jacob Henry Studer, Birds of North America, (New York: Natural Science Association of America, 1903).