The Zoologist— November, 1866. 469 



» If ydii (all in the adventure, our crotvs shall fare the better for you." 



Cymbeline, Act iii. Scene 1. 



" When you above perceive me like a crow." 



Id., Act iii. Scene 3. 



" But match to match I have encounter'd liiin, 

 And made a prey for carrion kites and crows, 

 Even of the bonny beast he lov'd so well." 



Henry VI., Part II., Act v. Scene 2. 



" A les of Eome shall not return to tell 

 What croivs have peck'd him here." 



Cymbelitip, Act v. Scene 3. 



" By my troth he'll yield the emu a pudding one of these days." 



Henry V., Act ii. Scene 1. 



" Yon island carrions {i. c, carrion crows),^desperate of their bones." 



Henry V., Act iv. Scene 2. 



« And their executors, the knavish croics, 

 Fly o'er the mall, impatient fur their hour." 



Id. 



In 'Troilus and Ciessida' (Act i. Scene 2), when the fofces are 

 passing in review, as soon as the generals have gone by, Pandarus, 

 who with Cressida is looking on, says, 



" Ne'er look, ne'er look ; the eagles are gone ; 

 Crows and daws, crows and daws.'' 



* * * " thrill and shake, 



Even at the crowing of your nation's cock, 



Thinking this voice an armed Englishman.'' 



King John, Act v. Scene 2. 



" The original has ' the crying of your nation's crow,' but Mr. 

 Collier has no doubt about the above substitution, ' even at the 

 crowing of your nation's cock,' galhts meaning both a cock and a 

 Frenchman." (Douce). 



" Casting forth to crows thy baby daughter." 



Winter's Tale, Act iii. Scene 2. 



" Leaving thy trunk for croivs to feed upon." 



Henry VI., Part II., Act iv. Scene 10. 



" The crows and choughs that wing the midnight air 

 Show scarce so gross as beetles." 



King Lear, Act iv. Scene 6. 



