CORVUS CORAX. 5 I 5 



to a Kestrel's. Large flocks are often to be seen, especially after a 

 take of Bottle-nosed Whales. I saw one trapped at Kirkwall, and 

 of another the foot left behind. This I was going to put into my 

 pocket ; but the man, who had just taken it out of his own, would 

 not let me have it on any account, for luck's sake. Possibly he 

 could not comprehend what I wanted it for. In Shetland the Raven 

 is equally abundant. 



§ 3770. O^z^.— Orkney, 1S50. From Mr. George Harvey. 



§ 2771. ^/^^.— Orkney, 1851. From Mr. George Harvey. 

 Out of seventeen. 



§ 2772. One.— Me of Wight, 1851. From Mr. John Evans, 

 1853. 



This was obtained by Mr. Evans at the same time and place as the 

 Peregrine Falcon's eggs above mentioned [§ 224] . It was taken on 

 the same cliffs. 



§ 2773. T'/t'o.— Ireland, 1851. From Mr. J. Davis, through 

 Dr. Frere, 1852. 



^ 2774. Tiuo.—FsdYoe, 1851. From Sysselmand M. A. Winther. 



Herr Miiller brought with him this year from the Fseroes two 

 black-and-white Ravens, which went to Strelley, and one of them 

 died soon after from an attack by the Eagle. There is at this time 

 [1851] a black-and-white Raven in the Zoological Gardens, probably 

 from the Faeroes.^ 



^ [Time out of mind pied or white Ravens had been known to occur, thoug-h 

 rarely, in various places ; but in the Faeroes so often as to give rise to the belief 

 that they formed a distinct species. In I60f5 the ' Museum Wormianum ' mentions 

 (p. 292), under the name of Corvus versicolor, the .skins of two as sent thence ; and 

 not long after (167f ) Debes tells of one wliich he had alive (Fieroa Reserata, 

 p. 125), though he justly considered it only a variety. Brisson described and 

 figured a specimen in 1760 as the C'orbeau blanc dn Nord (Ornithologie, Suppl. 

 p. 33, pi. ii. fig. 1), and in 1817 Vieillot (Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. Nouv. M. viii. 



