521) 



CORVUS CORNIX. THE HOODED CROW. 



r.RF,Y-B\CKED CROW. GREY CROW. DUN CROW. BUNTING CROW. 

 ROYSTON CROW. CROW. HEEDY CRAW. FEANAG. STARAG. 



Fig. 85. 



Corvus Cornix. Linn* Syst. Nat. I. 156. 



Corvus Cornix. Lath. InJ. Orn. I. 153. 



Hooded Crow. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Corneille Mantel^e. Corvus Cornix. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 109. 



Hooded Crow, Corvus Cornix. Selb. lUustr. I. 351. 



Corvus Cornix. Hooded Crow. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 146. 



Of the adult male and female^ the head., fore-neck., wings and 

 tail blacky glossed with blue and green., the rest ash-grey ; the 

 tail slightly rounded., straight ; the feathers of the throat short., 

 lanceolate., compact. Of the young., the plumage all black., except- 

 ing a broad band of dusky grey round the fore part of the body. 



Male. — -This species is so closely allied to the Carrion Crow, 

 that, were the colours the same in both, it would be almost 

 impossible to distinguish them. Some persons indeed have 

 considered the two as probably forming only a single species ; 

 but in this opinion I do not agree with them, for reasons to be 

 presently stated. The general form and size are about the 



M m 



