Class IL 



ROOK 



22f 



Sweden it is fo rare, that Linnaiis mentions it only 

 as a bird that he once knew killed there. 



It lays the fame number of eggs as the raven, 

 and of the fame color : immediately after deferting 

 their young, they go in pairs. Both thefe birds 

 are often found white, or pied ; an accident that 

 befals black birds more frequently than any o- 

 thers : I have alfo fecn one entirely of a pale 

 brown color, not only in its plumage, but even in 

 its bill and feet. The crow weighs about twen- 

 ty ounces. Its length eighteen inches : its breadth 

 two feet two inches. 



La Graye, GroUe ou Freux. La Corneille MoifToneufe. 



Belon anj. 283. BriJ/c-n av. II. 1 6. 



Cornix frugivora (Roeck). Roka. Faun. Suec, 87. 



Gefner aij. 332. 

 Aldr. a'v. I. 378. 

 WiL orn. 123. 

 Rail fyn, a-v. 39. 

 Corvus frugilegus. Lin. fyji. 



i;6. 

 Le Freux, ou la Frayonne. 



Hiji. d'Oys, IIL 55. 



Spermologus, feu frugilega. 



Caii opnfc. lOO. 

 Schwartze krau, Schwartze 



krahe. Kra7n, 333. Frifch, 



I. 64. 

 Br. Zool. 76. 



"^6. RooK< 



THE Rook is the Corvus oi Virgil .^ no other 

 fpecies of this kind being gregarious. 



E paftu decedens agmine magno 

 Corvormn increpuit denfis exercitus alis. 



A very natural defcription of the evening return 

 of thefe birds to their nefts. 



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