CROW. 



79' 



Bare-necked Crow, Gen. Syn. i. p. 382. N'lf^ t, , „t, l^:,^ 



CROW, 



T ENGTH fifteen inches. Bill yellowifh ; tip black j noftrils 

 broad, expofed, -without any reflefted briftles : the outnnoft 

 quills black ; the reft of the prime quills black within, but with- 

 out ooliquely grey to near the tips : wing coverts and fecond 

 quills pale grey : tail fix inches long, even at the end : legs dufky 

 yellow. 



The above in the mufeuni of the late Dr. Hunter. It does not 

 clearly belor^g to the Crow genus j perhaps might with more pro- 

 priety be placed with the Grakles. As I had the opportunity of 

 examining it before it was put into attitude, I obferved that the 

 hind toe was placed more inward than in many other birds, but no 

 membrane between that and the inner toe; nor in my opinion had 

 nature ever intended it to be ufed forwards, as Buffon feems to 

 think. 



Jay, Get!. Syn. i. p. 384. N° \q.~jlrB. Zool. ii. p. 252. E. 19. 



Corvus glandarius, Brun. N° 33. — Midler, N" 90. — Georgi Reife, p. 165. — "*" J"^^- 



Faun. Arag. — Sepp. Vcgd. pi. in p. I,. - 



T'^HIS fpecies is common in the woods both of Rujfia and 5ihi- 

 ria, but none beyond the Lena* ; Georgi mentions it as fre- 

 quenting the Lake Baikal, and Rujfel records it as an Aleppo fpe- 

 cies f . I have a fufpicion alfo that it extends to China, as it is to 

 be feen in the drawings or" birds from that country. 



It is called by the name of Jay about Arragon, in Spain, as ia 



* Ara..Zool. t Hift. Alep. p. 6(^. 



England,^ 



