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Caught by the natives. Its flefh is eaten. The fkins reckoned the 

 beft for cloathing : the wings ufed for brulhes : the quils fplit, are 

 made into fifhing-lines. They alfo inhabit Newfoundland, and now 

 and then appear as low as Virginia and Carolina *. 



This bird is, among the American favages, an emblem of return of 

 health. Their phyficiansj or rather magicians, when they vifit a fick 

 perfon, invoke the Raven, and mimic his croaking voice f. The 

 northern Indians, on the contrary, deteil this and all the Crow kind '\. 

 It inhabits Kamt/chatka and Sibiria ; but not within the Afiatic 

 Ardtic regions. 



J.35. Carrion. Br. Zcol. i. N" 75 i— Latham, \. 370. 



Blaae Raage, Brunnkk, N° 2g. 

 Corvus Corone, Faun. Suec. N° 86. 

 La Corbine, ou rCorneille, De Buffon, iii. 4.^.'— Pi, Enl, 483. — Lev. Mus, 



f^ With the plumage wholly black, gloffed with violet : bill 

 ftrong, thick, and arched : noftrils covered with ftrong black 

 briftles : ends of the feathers of the tail (lightly pointed. Length 

 eighteen inches and a half. Weight from twenty to twenty-two 

 ounces 1|. 

 Place. Inhabits the province of New Tork, and the inland parts of Hud- 



Jon's Bay. Mr. Blackburn obferved, that it retains there the fame 

 manners as the European fpecies ; and never migrates from New 

 Tork. Mr. Kalm fays, that they fly in great numbers, and have a 

 cry much refembling the Rook §. By his account, they appear of 

 a mixed nature, feeding not only on grain, but on carrion j and are 

 ,alfo very pernicious to young poultry. Like Rooks, they pull up the 



» Laiufon, 139. t Adair'' sHifi. Am. 173. ' J Mr. Hutchins. 

 Jj Voyage, i. 121. 



§ See article Rook, p. 250, A. where a coroparifon is made of the differences 

 betweei) thefe two birds. 



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