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tide, and thus had been left to the mercy of the 

 Crows. 



I think what I have said about them pretty well 

 bears out the general bad character I have given 

 them. This species interbreeds with the Carrion- 

 Crow. Its habitat abroad according to Howard 

 Saunders, is the Faroes where it is resident, Scandi- 

 navia, Finland, and Northern Russia, where it is 

 common, Central Germany, where colonies of the 

 pure bred bird are found ; Switzerland, France, and 

 Spain it only visits in the winter. It nests in the 

 islands of Majorca, Corsica, and Sardinia ; is resi- 

 dent in Italy and Sicily ; visits North Western 

 Africa ; is very abundant in Egypt, where it breeds ; 

 swarms in southern Russia, whilst eastwards, it can 

 be traced through Asia, Persia, to Afghanistan. 

 Thus it has a very wide distribution. The young 

 birds in the case were obtained on the west coast 

 of Scotland. 



CASE 48. 



THE CARRION-CROW AND ROOK. 

 Order, Passeres. Family, Corvidce. 



The Carrion -Crow. 



This species in not quite so widely distributed in 

 the British Islands as some might be disposed to 

 think. Howard Saunders considers it to be "fairly 

 common in the wooded districts of England and 



