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and in Ireland. It occasionally nests in the south of 

 Scotland and the north of England. Where their 

 ranges overlap, it frequently interbreeds with the Carrion- 

 Crow. Also a Winter Visitor from northern and central 

 Europe, most in evidence in the east coast districts. 



General Distribution. The typical form breeds in the 

 Faeroes and northern Europe. Germany east of the Elbe, 

 Austria-Hungary, and Italy. In winter it leaves the extreme 

 northern portion of its range and is then also found in 

 western and southern Europe. Occasional in Iceland and 

 north-west Africa. The races found in Corsica and Sardinia, 

 the Balkan Peninsula, Cyprus, Egypt, and western Asia have 

 been separated. 



Corvus monedula. JACKDAW. 



Corvus monedula Limucus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 106 : 

 Sweden. 



Colceus monedula (Linn.} ; SJiarpe, Cat. Birds B. H. iii. 1877, 



p. 26. 

 Corvus monedula B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 68 ; Sounders, 



Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 239. 



Mdnedfda = a Daw, in classical Latin. Taken from Ovid, in his account 

 of the nymph Arne mythically turned into a Daw for having betrayed her 

 country for gold (Metam. vii. 466) ; derived from moneta = money, and 

 edo = I eat. But some MSS. of Plautus read monerula, as if from the root 

 of nlvvpos = complaining in a low tone, ftivvpi'^ia = minurio = I warble, 

 twitter, mintrare to squeak like a mouse, etc. (Vanisek). 



Distribution in the British Islands. Resident and common 

 except in the north-west Highlands, Outer Hebrides, and 

 Shetlands, but has occurred as a straggler as far west as 

 St. Kilda. 



General Distribution. The typical form of the Jackdaw 

 breeds in Scandinavia, in west, central, and parts of southern 

 Europe, but in eastern Europe it meets with C. m. collaris, 

 which also inhabits parts of north and west Asia. Occasional 

 in Iceland and the Faeroes, and has also occurred in the 

 Canary Islands, Morocco, and Algeria. 



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