THE HOODED CEOW. 



CORVUS CORNIX. 



Head, throat, wings, and tail black, the rest of the plumage ash-grey; tail 

 rounded; beak and feet black; iris brown. Length nineteen and a half 

 inches ; breadth three feet two inches. Eggs bluish green, mottled with ash- 

 grey and olive. 



THE Hooded Crow closely resembles the Carrion Crow, 

 scarcely differing from it in fact except in colour. They 

 are however perfectly distinct species, and for the most 

 part exercise their calling in separate haunts. In Norway 

 Hooded Crows are very abundant, to the almost total exclu- 

 sion of the Carrion Crow and Kook, and, though not con- 

 gregating so as to form a society like the last-named bird, 

 they may be seen simultaneously employed in searching 

 for food in groups which collectively amount to a hundred 

 or more. They do not appear to be constant residents in 



