THE CARRION CROW 



CORFUS CORONE 



LOCAL names in surrounding counties : 



STATUS IN BRITISH AVIFAUNA : A common and widely 

 distributed resident, rarer in some parts of Scotland, and 

 more so in Ireland. Its numbers are increased in autumn 

 by arrivals from the Continent. 



RADIAL DISTRIBUTION WITHIN FIFTEEN MILES OF ST. 

 PAUL'S : The Carrion Crow, although nowhere common, 

 is generally distributed over the Metropolitan area, and 

 may frequently be observed in some of the more central 

 districts, such as Hyde Park, St. James's Park, the Green 

 Park, and Regent's Park. Doubtless it pays passing 

 visits to many of the intervening squares and open spaces, 

 where it is usually mistaken for the Rook. It has been 

 known to breed in Battersea Park, and also occasionally 

 visits that attractive spot, and at least a pair were nesting 

 in the spring of 1905 in the gardens of Gray's Inn. It 

 also nests in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens. In 

 the more rural suburbs it becomes commoner, and I have 

 records from most of the open spaces in these parts of the 

 London area, from Clapham, Peckham, Streatham, and 

 Wimbledon in the south ; from Cricklewood, Willesden, 

 Kilburn, Highgate, Hampstead, Tottenham, and Wal- 

 thamstow in the north ; from Epping and Ilford in the 

 east ; and from Chiswick, Acton, Wormwood Scrubbs, and 

 Twyford in the west. It is said to breed in the Wimble- 

 don and Bushey districts, around Hanwell, Wembley, 

 Harrow, Barnet, Waltham, Epping, Victoria Park and 

 Wanstead, near Dartford, in the Crays, Croydon, Banstead 

 and Epsom, as well as in various intervening localities. 



Like the Raven the Carrion Crow is comparatively a 

 solitary bird, but occasionally it associates in flocks where 

 food chances to be exceptionally abundant. It has also 

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