88 BIRDS OF GUEENSEY. 



getting scarcer in Guernsey, as I have not seen any 

 there since ; and the last note I have of Eavens 

 being seen in the Island is in a letter from Mr. 

 Couch, who wrote me word that two Eavens had 

 been seen and shot at several times, but not 

 obtained, in November, 1873. I have not seen a 

 Eaven in any of the other Islands, and do not know 

 of one having occurred there. 



Professor Ansted includes it in his list, and marks 

 it as only occurring in Guernsey. There is no 

 specimen at present in the Museum. 



77. CROW. Con- us corone, Linnaeus. French, 

 " Corneille noire." The Crow is pretty common, 

 and breeds in most of the Islands, and probably at 

 times commits considerable depredations amongst 

 the eggs and young of the Gulls and Shags at all 

 events it is by no means a welcome visitor to the 

 breeding stations of the Gulls, as in this summer 

 (1878) I saw four Crows about a small gullery near 

 Petit Bo Bay, one of which flew over the side of 

 the cliff to have a look at the Gulls' eggs, probably 

 with ulterior intentions in regard to the eggs ; but 

 one of the Gulls saw him, and immediately flew at 

 him and knocked him over : what the end of the 

 fight was I could not tell, but probably the Crow 

 got the worst of it, as several other Gulls went off 

 to join their companion as soon as they heard the 

 row ; and the Crows trespassed no more on the 



