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arched for the whole length ; tomia entire ; 

 nostrils covered with thick, short, strong 

 plumes, regularly rounded off at the extre- 

 mity ; rictus bristled ; wings long ; quills 

 irregularly graduating, fourth longest ; tail 

 slightly rounded ; tarsi and feet strong and 

 short; claws strong. P. graculus, leucop- 

 terus. 

 Europe, Asia, New Holland. 



THE CHOUGH or RED-LEGGED CROW. FRE- 

 GILUS GRACULUS, Cuvier. Corvus gracidus, 

 Linn. Pyrrhocorax gracidus, Temm. Red- 

 legged Crow, or Cornish Chough, of modern 

 authors. This very handsome bird is locally 

 distributed, but is perhaps not so rare as has been 

 generally accounted. In this country it only 

 frequents sea-coasts, never venturing far inland, 

 and in this respect seems to differ considerably 

 from the birds on the Continent, where Alpine 

 inland districts are in part inhabited by them. In 

 Britain, the rocky coasts of Devon and Cornwall, 

 various parts of Wales, and some of the adjacent 

 isles, are southern localities ; in Scotland, St 

 Abb's Head on the eastern side, and the shores 

 of Wigtonshire and Galloway on the western, are 

 frequented ; and we learn that it reaches even the 

 Hebrides. In Ireland, Mr Thompson writes, " it 

 frequents the sea-coast chiefly, and occurs in cer- 

 tain localities, in the north, south, and east of Ire- 

 land." But that part where we have seen it most 



