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WHITE- 
BREASTED 
CR. 
DescripTion. 
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JACKDAW. 
Cc R. O W. 
the Highlands of Scotland, where they breed on all forts of trees ; are 
indifcriminate feeders, living on both carrion and fhell fith, alfo will 
eat at times Cranberries, and other mountain berries. I have alfo 
been informed, that in the ftomach of one were found feveral {mall 
fhells and horfe beans. 
Corvus dauuricus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 154. 8. 
Corneille 4 fcapulaire blanc, Lewaill. Oi/ il. p. 14. pl. 53. 
Corvus {capulatus, Corneille a fcapulaire, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 233. 
White-breafted Crow, Gen. Syz. 1. p. 3.76. 6. pl. 15. 
HIS is figured in the Planches Enluminées, but the wings are 
there too fhort, for they reach three-fourths of the way on the 
tail: the female is fmaller than the male, and the colours lefs vivid: 
are found at the Cape of Good Hope in plenty; make the neft in trees 
or bufhes not well cloathed with leaves, and lay five or fix green 
egos fpotted with brown. The Hottentots hold this. bird and fome 
others of the crow kind in great eftimation, being of fingular ufe in 
picking out infects from the backs of oxen, with which they are 
fometimes fo covered as to be in danger of lofing their lives. In 
one of thefe, fuppofed to have come from China, I obferved the belly 
and under parts to be black, and I have no doubt of its being found 
in Abyfinia, as 1 obferved a figure of one among the drawings of 
Mr. Bruce. 
Corvus Monedula, Jad. Orxz. i, p- 154. 11.—-Sepp. Vog. 3. ts 115. 
Choucas commun, Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 233. 
Jackdaw, Gex. Syn.i. p. 378. 9.—Id. Supp. p.78- 
I Have obferved that this bird will frequently make the neft in 
rabbit burrows, and in the Je of Ely, for want of ruined edifices, 
in which it moft delights to build, it fometimes makes the 
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