CROW 



CARRION CROW GOR CROW GORE CROW BLACK 

 NEB-FLESH CROW. 



PLATE XLIV. 

 Corvus corone, LINNAEUS. 



THE Carrion Crow seldom nests before the middle of 

 April, unlike the Rook, which builds in March, and 

 the Raven, which lays in February. 



The nest is built in rocks or in trees, generally high 

 up, and is made of sticks, firmly cemented with clay, and 

 lined with roots, straw, wool, moss, fur, or hair, pulled for 

 the purpose from the backs of animals. It is almost always 

 lined with cow-hair, and is built of the materials just 

 mentioned, or strong heath, if it can be had, in prefer- 

 ence to sticks. It is also not unfrequently built in thorn 

 bushes, where tall trees are not plentiful, and even some- 

 times in the lower parts of such, not more than a dozen 

 feet from the ground, also occasionally, as in Holland, 

 where trees are scarce, even on the ground itself. The 

 same old nest will be used again and again if the birds 

 are left undisturbed, and it is probable that they pair for 

 life. They are very careful in approaching the nest, and 

 do so by four or more separate flights, first to a tree near 



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