192. SYNOPSIS AND ALPHABETICAL INDEX 
Generally distributed, frequents trees, woods, thickets, 
hedges, and also gardens and orchards for buds of trees 
and ripe fruit. Habits: Seldom seen on the ground ; 
not shy. Not migratory. They pair for life. Remain 
with the young during autumn and winter. Length: 
6 inches (about). Note: The well known ‘ piping,’ 
for which they are kept in cages (as well as for their 
handsome appearance) ; it is their call note (melancholy 
to some people); also a different, weak, often repeated 
phrase. Food: See above, and also privet berries, 
hips and haws, dandelion seeds, in winter, also ground- 
sel, etc. A diet of hemp seed exclusively is said to 
turn the plumage black. Plumage: See above. Nest: 
Beginning of April. Sztuated : In lower part of a tree 
or in evergreens (hollies, yews, etc.), amongst dense 
foliage. Open, cup-shaped, peculiar in having a raised 
vim and a platform outside. Made of : Twigs and fine 
roots, and lined with horsehair, and sometimes the | 
seeds (pappus) of the coltsfoot, etc. Second nests : 
Two, three and sometimes four yearly. Eggs: Green- 
ish-blue, spotted and streaked dark purple-brown, or 
pinkish-brown. Five generally. 
3. CARRION CROW 
Corvus corone (other members of the Crow family, 
Corvide are the rook, jackdaw, hooded crow and 
