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HOODED CROW. 
ROYSTON CROW. GREY CROW. GREY-BACKED 
CROW. SCARE-CROW. WOODY. DUN CROW. BUNTING CROW 
Corvus corniz, LinN-Zvus. GMELIN. 
“cinerea, Brisson. Ray. 
Corvus—A Crow. Cornix—A Crow. 
Tuts species has obtained the specific name given by the 
Romans to some bird of the Crow kind, deemed of unlucky 
omen—the ‘sinistra cornix.’ 
It is found in Europe—in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the 
Feroe Islands, I{celand, Germany, Greece, Italy, Holland, 
Russia, and Siberia; in Asia Minor, the Crimea, and Japan. 
It occurs throughout England, Ireland, and Scotland. 
In this country these birds are migratory, frequenting the 
south only in the winter, arriving in October, and returning 
in April. In the north of Scotland, and the Hebrides, Orkney 
and Shetland Islands, they are stationary, but in the south 
they partake of the habits of the ‘southrons.’ Mr. Selby is 
of opinion that those which appear in the south have come 
over from Norway and Sweden, as they generally arrive with 
the first flight of Woodcocks, taking advantage of a north- 
east wind. His reason of the supposition is, that there is no 
apparent diminution in the number of those in the north at 
the time; but such a calculation cannot be accurately made, 
and unless there were any apparent simultaneous increase of 
the numbers in the north, the argument would hardly be 
conclusive, for it is not to be supposed that foreign birds of 
the same kind as those which frequent the north of the 
kingdom, would migrate westwards from the same, or a still 
farther parallel of latitude, only to the south of it. 
