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CARRION 
CROW. 
CR OW. 
formed by a fingle row of white feathers, or rather half white, the _ 
outer border being only vifible: the feathers of the throat are forked ; 
the beards extending beyond the fhafts, and lefs black than the reft of 
the plumage: irides brown or hazel. 
Mr. Levaillant found this every where in his 4/rican travels, but 
particularly among the great Namaquas, and in S warte-Land, but lefs 
common at the Cape of Good Hope itfelf. The female is lefs than the 
male; the white on the neck lefs extended, the black lefs glofly, 
more inclined to brown: it is a bold bird, attacking young lambs and 
antelopes, alfo feeding on carrion. 
I obferved a figure of this among Mr. Bruce’s drawings; the bill 
elevated not unlike that of the 4i : fhoulders of the wings brownifh: 
tip of the bill white. Mr. Levaillant thinks it a link between the 
Crow and Vulture, and that it is not a bird of pafiage. 
Corvus Corone, Ind. Orn. i. p, 151. 4.—Sepp. Vog. 3. t. 15. 
Corvus maritimus, Rook, Bartram’s Trav. p. 286? 
Corneille Corbine, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 228.—Hi?. Prov. i. p. 486. 
Carrion Crow, Gez. Syz.i- p. 370. 3- 
HE manners of this fpecies are well known ; Bae a fingular anec- 
dote of one of thefe has come to my knowledge, attefted by Mr. 
Edwards. In March 1783, a Crow was obferved to build a neft on 
the vane of the top of the Exchange at Newca/fle, and the more re- 
markable, as the fpindle on which the neft was conftructed, being 
fixed to the vane, rnoves with it, and it appeared very fingular to view 
it in windy weather, when the neft in courfe turned round to every 
point of the compafs. A fmall copper-plate was engraven with a 
reprefentation of the circumftance, of the fize of a watch paper; and 
fo pleafed were the inhabitants with ir, that as many of them were 
fold as produced to the engraver the fum of ten pounds. 
Birds of the Crow genus are ; faid to be fo numerous about 4fra- 
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