BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



Carrion Crow. 



THE Carrion Crow (Corvus corone, Temminck) is a 

 resident and fairly well distributed species in the British 

 Isles. It is said also to occur in most parts of the 

 Western Palearctic Region, extending its range into India 

 and also China. The adult has the whole of the plumage 

 black, the upper parts glossed with purple ; head, neck, 

 and throat, tinged with green; the nostrils have a covering 

 of bristly feathers ; legs and feet, black ; irides, brown. 

 Length, from seventeen to nineteen inches. The young 

 are similar in colouration to the adult, but the gloss on the 

 feathers is absent. 



