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much rounded at the extremity : bill and feet black : irides dark hazel. 

 (Egg.) Ground colour pale bluish green, spotted and speckled with two 

 shades of ash-colour and clove-brown : long. diam. one inch eight lines ; 

 trans, diam. one inch two lines. 



Common throughout the kingdom, but most abundant in wooded dis- 

 tricts. Food and habits similar to those of the Raven. Like that species 

 found in pairs all the year. Breeds as early as February. Nest gene- 

 rally placed in the forked branch of a lofty tree, composed of sticks, and 

 lined with wool, hair, and other soft materials. Eggs four or five in 

 number. 



112. C. Cornice, Linn. (Hooded Crow.) Head r 

 throat, wings and tail, black, glossed with blue ; the 

 rest of the plumage ash-gray. 



C. Comix, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 109. Id. torn. HI. p. 59. 

 Hooded Crow, Mont. Orn. Diet. Selb. Illust. vol. i. p. 351. pi. 29. 

 Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 83. 



DIMENS. Entire length nineteen inches six lines : length of the bill 

 (from the forehead) two inches two lines, (from the gape) two inches two 

 lines and a half; of the tarsus two inches three lines; of the tail seven 

 inches six lines ; from the carpus to the end of the wing twelve inches ten 

 lines : breadth, wings extended, three feet two inches. 



DESCRIPT. Head, throat, wings, and tail, black, with blue and green 

 reflections : all the rest of the plumage cinereous gray : bill strong, shaped 

 like that of the Raven, black : nostrils covered by reflected bristly'feathers, 

 as in the last species : irides brown : feet black. (Egg.) Mottled all 

 over with dark greenish brown on a lighter green ground : long. diam. 

 one inch ten lines ; trans, diam. one inch three lines. 



Resident all the year in the western and northern parts of Scotland, 

 and in some parts of Ireland, but only a winter visitant in England, 

 where it arrives about the end of October, and remains till the approach 

 of Spring. During its stay chiefly frequents the sea-coast, or open and 

 extensive downs. Builds in trees and rocky cliffs, constructing a nest 

 similar to that of the Carrion Crow. Breeds early in the year, and lays 

 four or five eggs. Feeds indiscriminately on all kinds of animal sub- 

 stances. 



113. C. frugileguS) Linn. (Rook.) Plumage black, 

 glossed with blue: base of the bill (in the adult bird) 

 denuded of feathers, and covered with a white scurf. 



C. frugilegus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 110. Id. torn. in. p. 59. 

 Rook, Mont. Orn. Diet. Selb. Illust. vol. i. p. 353. pi. 30. Bew. 

 Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 85. 



DIMENS. Entire length eighteen inches : length of the bill (from the 

 forehead) two inches two lines, (from the gape) two inches four lines ; of 

 the tarsus two inches ; of the tail seven inches five lines ; from the carpus 

 to the end of the wing twelve inches six lines : breadth, wings extended, 

 three feet. 



DESCRIPT. Strongly resembling the C. Corone, but may always be 

 distinguished in the adult state by the naked, scabrous, whitish skin 

 surrounding the base of the bill, and by the entire absence of nasal fea- 



