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A. Rook, Br. Ztol. i. N" 76. — Latham, i. 372. 



Corvus Frugilegus, Roka, Faun. Suet. N" ^j.—De Buffon, iii. jj.. 



Place. 



/^ Black, glofied with purple : a tinge of dull green over part of 

 the tail : the ends of the feathers of the tail broad, and rounded j 

 thofe of the Crow, acute : the bill ftraiter, flenderer, and weaker, than 

 that of the Carrion Crow : the length two inches and a halfj that of the 

 latter only two inches and a quarter. The bill of the Crow is of a- 

 more intenfe black. The noftrils and bafe of the bill of the Rook. 

 naked, and whitifli, occafioned by being often thruft under ground 

 in fearch of food. The Weight of both nearly the fame, about 

 twenty-one ounces : the length about eighteeni.inches : the extent 

 of wings in the Rook three feet one inch and a half j of the Crow, 

 two inches and a half lefs *. 



This fpecies is not found farther north than the fouth of Sweden. 

 It breeds there ; but is driven away by the feverity of the winter. 

 No mention is made of it in the Danijh or Norwegian Faunjs. \% 

 common in Ruffia, and the weft of Sibiria ; but there are none in the 

 eaft. They migrate in the beginning o^ March to the environs of 

 Woronefch, and mingle with the common Crows f. 



• I once had the curlofity to compare the meafurements of thefe common birds, and 

 found them as above ; but they are often inferior in fize&to the fubjefts I examined. 

 f Extrails, i. 103. 



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