396 CLASS AVES. 



The Alpine Chocard. Chocard des Alpes, Corvus 

 Pyrrho-corax, L. Enl. 351. 



Black, with the beak yellow, the feet at first brown, 

 then yellow, and in the adult state red, which builds 

 in the clefts of rocks of the higher mountains, whence 

 they descend in winter in large flocks into the vallies. 

 They live on insects^ snails, and fruits, and do not 

 disdain carrion. 



In India there is another, 



The Sicrin. Sicrin, Vail. Ap. PI. 82., 

 distinguished by three barbless stalks, as long as the 

 body, on each side, among the feathers which cover 

 the ears. 



This is the Corvus Crinelus of Daudin, Corvus Sex- 

 setaceus of Shaw, and the Pastor Setiyer of Wagner, 

 to which genus it appears to be most allied. 



Temminck places in this genus the Pyrrho-corax 

 Leucopterus, and also the Corvus Garridus, of Lin., of 

 which Cuvier forms the genus Regilus, and places it 

 with the Hooppoes. 



1 find no sufficient character for separating from the 

 blackbirds 



The true Orioles, (Oriolus, Lin.) 



whose beak resembling that of the blackbirds, is only 

 a little stronger, and whose feet are a little shorter in 

 proportion. Linnaeus and his followers have joined 

 them to the Cassiques-, which they resemble only in 

 colours. 



