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Corvus Senegalenfis, Jud. Orz.i. p. 163. 33. 
Le Piapiac, Levaill. Of ii. p. 17. pl. 54.—Daudin. Orn. ii. p. 239. 
Senegal Crow, Gen. Syn. i. p. 394. 31. 
THIS a4 Levaillant found in Africa, far diftant from the great 
Namaquas ; it agrees with that in P2. Enluminées, 538, but has 
a far longer tail. Mr. Levaillant called it from its cry, which is 
truely expreffive of its name; it perches on high trees, fometimes 
twenty together: the males have the longeft tail, more graduated 
than in the European Magpie, than which it is more flender. It 
builds on the tops of high trees, defends the neft entirely with thorns, 
only leaving one opening; lays from fix to eight white eggs, marked 
with fome fpots of brown, biggeft at the laree end; is feen in the 
inward parts of the Cape of Good Hope, but rarely if ever at the Cape 
itfelf Mr. Zewaillant mentioned a fingularity in one of the tail 
feathers having two fhafts coming out of one quill, one of them 
entirely without webs, but whether a mere /u/us nature, or common 
to the fpecies in general, he had not an opportunity of obferving. 
Corvus Pyzrkocorax, Ind. Ora. i. p. 165. 
Crave des Alpes, Daudin. Orn ii. p. 252.—La Peiroufe, neue Schay. Abb. B, 3. 
S. 104. . 
Alpine Crow, Gez. Syz. i. p. 381, 11. 
A Peiroufe obferves, that this fpecies is found in the higheft 
Pyrenean Alps, defcending at the end of the year into the vallies 
and meadows. The diftinguifhing charaéter by no means to be 
drawn from the colour of the legs, as they differ at different ages, 
for in fome they are black, in others orange coloured, and in old 
birds quite crimfon: the colour of the plumage is dufky black : the 
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