THE CARRION CROW 
CORVUS CORONE 
Loca names in surrounding counties : 
Stratus 1n British AviraunA: A common and widely 
distributed resident, rarer in some parts of Scotland, and 
more soin Ireland. Its numbers are increased in autumn 
by arrivals from the Continent. 
Rap1iaL DisrRIBUTION WITHIN FIFTEEN MILES OF ST. 
Paut’s : The Carrion Crow, although nowhere common, 
is generally distributed over the Metropolitan area, and 
may frequently be observed in some of the more central 
districts, such as Hyde Park, St. James’s Park, the Green 
Park, and Regent’s Park. Doubtless it pays passing 
visits to many of the intervening squares and open spaces, 
where it is usually mistaken for the Rook. It has been 
known to breed in Battersea Park, and also occasionally 
visits that attractive spot, and at least a pair were nesting 
in the spring of 1905 in the gardens of Gray’s Inn. It 
also nests in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens. In 
the more rural suburbs it becomes commoner, and I| have 
records from most of the open spaces in these parts of the 
London area, from Clapham, Peckham, Streatham, and 
Wimbledon in the south; from Cricklewood, Willesden, 
Kilburn, Highgate, Hampstead, Tottenham, and Wal- 
thamstow in the north; from Epping and Ilford in the 
east ; and from Chiswick, Acton, Wormwood Scrubbs, and 
Twyford in the west. It is said to breed in the Wimble- 
don and Bushey districts, around Hanwell, Wembley, 
Harrow, Barnet, Waltham, Epping, Victoria Park and 
Wanstead, near Dartford, in the Crays, Croydon, Banstead 
and Epsom, as well as in various intervening localities.’ 
Like the Raven the Carrion Crow is comparatively a 
solitary bird, but occasionally it associates in flocks where 
food chances to be exceptionally abundant. It has also 
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