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and primaries. Hitherto I have kept the birds together in the hope that the 

 Buzzard might recover his lost courage, but I have now arranged to separate 

 them, as I am afraid of the Buzzard being permanently injured." The remainder 

 of Mr. Comyns' notes are more in accordance with general experience, and there- 

 fore, of less interest. 



Mr. Frohawk saw seven examples of this species at tlie mouth of the Avon 

 (S. Devon) at the end of September, 1895 ; they all kept together and may 

 perhaps have been the old and young of the same family. 



Fa>,iilv-C0RJ7D.-E. 



The Carrion-Crow. 



Corviis iOfoiic, Linn. 



IN Siberia, according to Seebohm, this species occupies the forest country 

 Ijdng between Yenesay and the Pacific coast, extending northwards in 

 summer almost to the limits of forest growth and south-eastwards to Japan. 

 Westwards he is of opinion that, following the mountain-ranges of southern 

 Siberia into Turkestan, it crossed the Caspian, passed through an equally large 

 colony of Hooded Crows by way of the Caucasus, the northern shores of the 

 Black Sea and the valley of the Danube and keeping to the north of the Alps 

 spread over Germany, the Netherlands, the British Isles, France and Spain. He 

 was able also to prove that this species interbreeds with the Hooded Crow in the 

 valleys of the Elbe and Yenesay (as it is known to do in Scotland) producing 

 many intergrades between the two species, examples of which he presented to 

 the Trustees of the British Museum ; these have been carefully mounted, and 

 form one of the most instructive and attractive cases in the entrance-hall of the 

 Natural Histor}' branch of that Museum at South Kensington. 



