Cy ROOF W. 
chan, that could any one find out the means of deftroying them, it 
would be doing very great fervice. 
Corvus frugilegus, Zvd. Orn, 1. p. 158. 5.—Sepp. Vor. 3. tab. 103.—Bartram. Trav. 
p- 286? j 
Corneille du Cap, Lewaill. Oif. ii. p. 11. N° 52. 
Corneille Freux, Daud. Orn. il. p. 229. 
Rook, Gen. Syz. i, p. 372+ 4¢ Ree 
T is faid that. there are no Rooks in the ifland of Ferfey, although 
crows and magpies are not unfrequent; nor is it certain that Fays 
inhabit that ifland*; yet we are certain that Rooks migrate into France 
from this country.. This fpecies is apt to vary in colour, like the Crow, 
as two white ones are mentioned by Mr. White, in his Hiftory of 
Selbornet. . .. \ . . 
Mr.. Levaillant met with thefe at the Cape of Good Hope, but ob- 
ferves, that they ,differ only in the noftrils not being bare of feathers, 
as oblerved in Europe. ‘This probably arifes from fome difference in 
their manner of feeding, for the young Rooks have the noftrils well 
covered with briftles, and in proportion as they root with their bills 
into the ground, the briftles are rubbed off, and at laft the roots them- 
felves are deftroyed, the noftrils remaining bare for ever after. 
Corvus Cornix, Ind. Orn. i. p. 193. 7.—-Sepp. Vog. 3. tab. 106. 
Corneille manteléc, Daud. Orn. ii. p. 231. 
Hooded Crow, Gen. Syn. i. p. 153. 5. 
HIS fpecies changes place according to the feafon in this country, 
breeding in the more northern parts; I do not hear of their 
doing fo more fouthward than Northumberland; they approach the 
fouth about the middle of Oéfober, are common in the fummer about 
* Col. Montagu. + Pe 4z. 
the. 
109 
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HOODED. 
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