Mr J. II. r>tirhiinan O'li the Chowjlt in HcjAlaiul. 95 



prefacing' my remavks witli some extracts from oM books 

 and manuscripts on tlie bird's occurrence in (J(jrnwall and 

 otlier parts of England. 



In the "Household Book" of S(piire Tliomas Kytson of 

 Hengrave, Suffolk, the following entry occurs : 



"1573, May, — In rcvvardo to Mr Carcwe liis man, for bringing a Cornish 

 chonghe unto my mi"*^**, . ..... xijd." 



Mr Eodd, in his " Birds of Cornwall," suggests that this com- 

 pliment may allude to the family arms, in which are three 

 Cornish clioughs. 



"The Survey of Cornwall,"* by Carew, in 1G02, contains 

 the following passage: "Amongst which [sea-fowl] jackdaw 

 (the second slaunder of our countrie) shall passe for com- 

 panie, as frequenting their haunt, though not their diet : I 

 meane not the common daw, but one peculiar to Cornwall, 

 and there-through termed the Cornish chough. His bil is 

 sharpe, long, and red, his legs of the same colour, his feathers 

 blacke, his condition, when he is kept tame, ungratious, in 

 filching aud hiding of money and such short ends, somewhat 

 dangerous in carrying stickes of fire." In the edition of the 

 " Survey " published in 1811, Tonkin, the editor, remarks, in 

 a footnote to this passage, that choughs, on account of their 

 beautiful appearance, were often sent as presents. 



In Camden's " Britannia," -(- the writer, in describing St 

 Michael's Mount, says that " in the rocks underneath, as also 

 along the shore, everywhere breedeth the Pyrrhocorax, a kind 

 of crow, with bill and feet red, and not, as Plinie thought, 

 proper to the Alpes only. This bird the inhabitants have 

 found to be an incendarie, and theivish beside; for often- 

 times it secretly conveith fire sticks, setting their houses 



* The Survey of Cornwall, written by Eichard Carew of Antonie, Esquire. 

 London, printed by S. S. for John Jaggard, and are to bee sold neere Temple- 

 barre, at the sign of the Hand and Starre ; 1602. Sm. 4to, pp. 160. 



t Britain, or a Chorographicall Description of the most Flourishing King- 

 domes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Hands adioyning, out of the 

 depth of Antiquitie : Beavtified with Mappes of the Seuerall Shires of England : 

 Written first in Latine by William Camden Clarenceux, K. of A. : Translated 

 newly into English by Philemon Holland, Doctour in Physick : Finally 

 Revised, Amended, and Enlarged, with sundry Additions by the said Author. 

 Londini [folio], 1610. 



