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domain of the Gulls at least whilst I was there, 

 which was some time. 



Professor Ansted includes the Crow in his list, 

 but only marks it as occurring in Guernsey and 

 Sark. There is no specimen in the Museum. 



78. HOODED CROW. COITUS comix, Linnaeus. 

 French, " Corbeau mantele," " Corneille mantelee." 

 The Hooded Crow can only be considered an 

 occasional autumnal and winter visitant. I have 

 never seen it myself in the Islands, though many 

 of my visits to Guernsey have been in the autumn. 

 Mr. Couch, however, reports a small flock of Hooded 

 Crows being in Guernsey in November, 1873, one of 

 which was obtained. Mr. MacCulloch writes me 

 word that the Hooded Crow is a very rare visitant, 

 and only, as far as he knows, in very cold weather ; 

 and he adds " It is strange that we should see it 

 so rarely, as it is very common about St. Maloes." 

 Colonel 1'E strange, however, informed me that one 

 remained in Sark all last summer that of 1877 

 and paired with a common Crow,* but we could see 



* Where both forms are common this constantly happens 

 indeed, so constantly that Professor Newton, in his new 

 edition of ' Yarrell,' has made but one species of the Black 

 Crow and the Grey or Hooded Crow, Corvus corone and 

 Corvus comix, on the several grounds that there is no struc- 

 tural difference between the two; that their habits, food, 

 cries, and mode of nidification are the same (in considering 



