HOODED CROW: JACKDAW.^ a|i 



g. Hooded Cr. Bi-. ZooJ. i. N° •j-j. —Latham, i. 374. 

 Corvos Comix, Kraka, Faun. Suec. N" 88. 

 Ktigc, Leems, 21^.— De Buffon, ni. 61. 



/^ With black head^ wings, and tail 5 afli-colored body. 



Inhabits Europe, as high as th.^ Feroe iflands and Lapmark, where Plage^ 



it continues the whole year j but in the northern countries often re- 

 tires to the fhores, where it lives on fliell-fifh. Is very common in 

 all Ruffia and Sibiria : none beyond the Lena. Migrates to E'^oronefcb, 

 and paffes the winter there. Grows very large beyond the Ob, and 

 often varies to entire blacknefs. This bird, and the Raven, in Oc- 

 tober quit the Jub-alpine woods, where they breed j and fpread all 

 over the plains of Italy. This fpecies extends to Syria, as do the 

 Raven, Crow, Jackdaw, and Magpie *. 



This fpecies, the Raven, Crow, Jackdaw, Pie, and Jay, pafs 

 their winter at WoroneJch\, removing probably from hotter as well as 

 colder climates i for three of the above can endure the fevereft cold* 



C, Jackdaw, 5r. Zff»/. i. N° 81.— £«//5a»«, i. 378. 

 Kaia, Faun. Suec. N* 89. — De Buffon, iii. 6^. 



^ With white irides : hind part of the head light grey : breaft 

 • and belly dulky alh: reft of the bird black. Length thirteen 

 inches. 



Inhabits as far north as Sondmor : is fometimes feen in the Feroi PlaSe; 



ifles. Migrates from Smoland and Eaft Gothland the moment that 

 harveft ends ; and returns in the fpring, attendant on the Stares. 

 Winters about Upjal, and palTes the night in vaft flocks in ruined 

 towers, efpecially thofe of antient XJpJal. Common over all Rjiffta, 

 and the weft of Sibiria. A few are feen beyond lake Baikal. Are 

 -migratory, unlefs in the fouth of Ruffia. 



* Rt{ffsl't Ahfpe, 69. t Entrails, 3. !90. 



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