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HOODED CROW. 



110 \TSTOX CEOW. GREY CROW. GREY-BACKED 

 )\V. SCARE-CROW. 1IOODY. DUX CROW. BUNTING CROW. 



Corvus comix, 

 " cinerea, 



LINNAEUS. GMELIN. 

 BRISSON. RAY. 



Corvus A Crow. 



Comix A Crow. 



Tins species has obtained the specific name given by the 



mans to some bird of the Crow kind, deemed of unlucky 



en the 'sinistra comix.' 



It is found in Europe in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the 

 Feroe Islands, Iceland, Oermany, Greece, Italy, Holland, 

 Russia, and Siberia; in Asia Minor, the Crimsea, and Japan. 

 It occurs throughout England, Ireland, and Scotland. 



In this country these birds are migratory, frequenting the 

 south only in the winter, arriving in October, and returning 

 in April. In the north of Scotland, and the Hebrides, Orkney 

 and Shetland Islands, they are stationary, but in the south 

 they partake of the habits of the 'southrons.' Mr. Selby is 

 of opinion that those which appear in the south have come 

 over from Norway and Sweden, as they generally arrive with 

 the first flight of Woodcocks, taking advantage of a north- 

 cast wind. His reason of the supposition is, that there is no 

 apparent diminution in the number of those in the north at 

 the time; but such a calculation cannot be accurately made, 

 and unless there were any apparent simultaneous increase of 

 the numbers in the north, the argument would hardly be 

 conclusive, for it is not to be supposed that foreign birds of 

 the same kind as those which frequent the north of the 

 kingdom, would migrate westwards from the same, or a still 

 farther parallel of latitude, only to the south of it. 



