JNSESSORES. 



ROOK. 



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CORVIDM. 



THE ROOK. 



Corvus fruyilcguS) Tlie Rook, 



Le Freux, 



PENN. Brit, Zool. vol. i. p. 283. 

 MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 

 BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 91. 

 FLEM. Brit. An. p. 88. 

 SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 353. 

 JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 146. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xiii. 

 TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 110. 



THE ROOK, says Pennant, is the Corvus of Virgil, no 

 other species of this kind being gregarious. The Poet seems 

 to have been partial to these birds, bringing them into 

 notice on many occasions, and describing very naturally the 

 evening return to their nests. Rooks are at once dis- 

 tinguished from the other species of this family, already 



