2^.S C I N E R E O U S CROW. 



137. C1NER.10U5, Corvus Canadenfis, i/a. Syy?. 158. — Latham, i. ^Sg. 



Le Geay Brun de Canada, Brijfon, ii. 54. — De Buffbn, iii. 117. — Lev. Mus, 



IP With a black bill, ftrong, feaitj notched near the end of the 

 upper mandible : noftrils covered with a tuft of whitilh feathers 

 refledted downwards : the forehead, cheeks, and under part of the 

 body, of a dirty reddifh white : the feathers on the crov/n long and 

 black, forming a fpecies of creft, like that of the E-agliJh Jay : the 

 plumage on the back brown, filky, loofe, and unwebbed, like that of 

 the Jay : wings black : tail long, cuneiform, black ; the three out- 

 moft feathers tipt with dirty white : legs black. Length near ele- 

 ven inches : extent fifteen. Weight two ounces and a half. 

 ,Pl*ce. Inhabits Hudjon's Bay, Newfoundland, and Canada, and the woods 



on the weftern coafts of America. Thefe birds breed early in 

 fpring,: their inefts aiJje^made of {ticks and grafs, and built in pine- 

 trees. They have two, rarely three, young ones at a time. Their eggs 

 are blue. The young are quite black, and continue fo for fome time. 

 They fly in pairs. The male and female are perfedlly alike. They 

 feed on black mofs, worms, and even fiefh. When near habita- 

 tions or tents, they are apt to pilfer every thing they can come at, 

 even fait meat. They are bold, and come into the tents to eat 

 -yiftuals out of the difhes, notwithftanding they have their hoard of 

 berries lodged in the hollows of trees. They watch perfons baiting 

 ■the traps for Martins, and devour the bait as foon as they turn their 

 backs. Thefe birds lay up fl.ores for the winter j and are feldom 

 feen in January, unlefs near habitations : they are a kind of mock- 

 .bird. When caught, they pine away, and die, though their appetite 

 jrjever fails them f. Detefted by the natives of Hudjon's Bay. 



f Mr. Hutchins, 



