PASSE RES. ( 214 ) CORVID/E. 



THE HOODED CEOW. 



GREY CROW, HEEDY CRAW, GREY-BACKED CROW, ROYSTON 

 CROW, DUN CROW, BUNTING CROW, CROW. 



Gorvus comix. 



The Huddit Crawls cryit varrock, varrock. 



Sir David Lindsay, Complaynt of Scotland. 



The Rukis him rent, the Ravynis him drtiggit. 

 The Huditt Crawis his hairfurth ruggit. 



W. Dunbar. 



As alread)' mentioned in the account of the Carrion Crow, 

 the Hooded Crow is now considered by ornithologists to be 

 only a form of that bird. It is almost wholly migratory in 

 Berwickshire, generally arriving from the north of Europe 

 in October, and departing northwards in March and April ; ^ 

 but it has occasionally been known to remain during summer 

 and breed in the county, when it has been sometimes seen 

 with a Carrion Crow as a mate. Mr. H. H. Craw, Eaw- 

 burn, near Longformacus, informs me that a pair of Hooded 

 Crows remained on that farm in the summer of 1886, and 

 nested and reared their young in a plantation called Aller 

 grain Wood. It generally frequents the neighbourhood of 



1 The Hooded Crow is frequently seen on migration in spring and autumn at 

 the lighthouses on the Isle of May and the Fame Islands. — Reports on the 

 Migration of Birds, 1879-85. 



