PASSE RES. ( 197 ) CORVID^. 



THE CHOUGH. 



CORNISH CHOUGH, CORNISH DAW, CORNWALL KAE, CHAUK DAW, 

 KILLIGREW, RED-LEGGED CROW, MARKET JEW CROW. 



Pyrrliocorax graculus. 



Come on, sir ; liere's the place ; stand still ; how fearful 

 And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! 

 The Crows a7id Choughs, that wing the midway air, 

 Show scarce so gross as beetles : half-way down 

 Hangs one that gat hers samphire, — dreadful trade! 

 Methi?iks he seems no bigger than his head : 

 The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, 

 Appear like mice. 



Shakespeare, King Lear. 



The late Dr. George Johnston, of Berwick- ou-Tweed, in his 

 address to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, at its first 

 Anniversary Meeting, on the 19th of September 1832, says, 

 with regard to the visit of the Club to St. Abb's Head in the 

 previous July : — " I must not leave this majestic coast with- 

 out mention of another of its feathered tenants, the Cornish 

 Chough, which indeed was not seen by us on this occasion, 

 but is certainly ascertained to breed in the rocks between 

 St. Abb's Head and Fast Castle.^ This fact, distinctly 



1 Mr. Hancock, in his Birds of Northumherland, says :— " With regard to tlie 

 Chough, a specimen in my collection was presented to me by the late Mr. George 

 Johnston, of Berwick-on-Tweed ; it was shot at Redheugh, near the place where 

 it was breeding." Mr. Allan, Redheugh, says that Dr. Johnston's brother was 

 tenant of that farm from 1S23 to 1842. 



