IS JACKDAW. 



Male; weight, about nine ounces; length, about one foot 

 two inches; bill, black, covered at the base with depressed 

 feathers; iris, greyish white; crown, black; neck on the back, 

 and nape, fine hoary grey; the whole of the rest of the 

 plumage is black. The first wing feather is two inches and 

 a half shorter than the second, which is three quarters of an 

 inch shorter than the third, the third and fourth nearly equal 

 in length, and the longest in the wing. Legs, toes, and 

 claws, bright black. 



The female is less than the male; the grey on the neck is 

 less conspicuous, being not so light as in the male, and less 

 in extent. Young birds have but little of the grey at first; 

 it increases with their age, unlike the 'Prisoner of Chillon,' 

 whose hair was 'grey, but not with years.' 



