JABBERING CROW. 209 



the male has the belly yellowish. His figure is 

 also a female. He ascribes the species to Brazil 

 and Paraguay. 



JABBERING CROW.* 



Gabbling Crow. 



Corvus Jamaicensis. 



Comix Jamaicensis, Briss. 

 Corvus Jamaicensis, Gmel. 



In the wildest parts of the mountain regions of 

 Jamaica, where the perilous path winds round a 

 towering cone on the one hand, and on the other 

 looks down into a deep and precipitous gully ; or 

 where a narrow track, choked up with tree-ferns 

 on which the vertical sun looks only at noon-day, 

 leads through the dark and damp forest to some 

 lonely negro ground, the traveller is startled by 

 the still wilder tones of the Jabbering Crow. So 

 uncouth and yet so articulate, so varied in the 

 inflexions of their tones, are these sounds, that 

 the wondering stranger can with difficulty believe 

 he is Kstening to the voice of a bird, but rather 

 supposes he hears the harsh consonants, and deep 

 guttural intonations of some savage language. All 



* Length 16^ inches, expanse 28, flexure 9^, tail 5f, rictus 2, tarsus 

 2, middle toe 1 4- Intestine 30 inches ; two caeca, situated close together, 

 on the inferior side of the rectum, about ^ inch from cloiica ; -f^ inch 

 long , slender. Irides greyish hazel. 



