HOODED CROW. 41 
stiff feathers; iris, brown. Head on the sides, neck in front, 
zhin, and throat, bright bluish black, farthest down in the 
centre; breast, nape, and back, grey, the shafts of the feathers 
dark, but much more decisively so in some specimens than 
in others. Wings; the first feather is three inches shorter 
than the second, which is one inch shorter than the third, 
the third a little shorter than the fourth, which is the longest 
in the wing; primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries, bright black. 
Tail, bright black, rounded at the end; legs and toes, bright 
black, and plated; claws, bright black. 
The female is less than the male, and the grey of her 
plumage is tinged with brown. 
Young birds resemble the old. Selby says, ‘sometimes this 
bird varies in colouring, and is found entirely white or black.’ 
