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PASSE RES. 



CORVIM. 



COR VI D^. 



CORVUS CORONE, Linnaeus*. 

 THE BLACK CEOW. 

 Corvus cor one. 



EVIDENCE accumulated during many years, through the 

 observation of ornithologists of many countries and of 

 many schools, seems at last to compel the conclusion that 

 no specific distinction can be maintained between the birds 

 long known scientifically as Corvus cor one and Corvus 

 cornix, and in English as the Black or Carrion- Crow and 

 the Grey, Hooded or Royston Crow. True it is that each 

 for the most part may be readily recognized from the other 

 by its different coloration, that each has a different range 

 and, to some extent, slightly different habits ; but when we 



* gyst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 155 (1766). 



