CROW. 37! 



in Canada * in winter ; but common in Louifiana, where they are 

 eaten, according to fome -f\ Not unlikely to be the Maldivian Crow, 

 mentioned by F. Pyrand. Dumpier mentions their being at New 

 Holland and New Guinea J, and, according to our late voyagers, 

 at New Caledonia || likewile. 



With us, both this bird and the Raven remain the whole year. 



La Corneille variee, Brif. orn. ii. p. 15. N° 2. A, ,, 



Eunte Kraehe, Scheckige Kraehe, Frifcb. t. 66. Var. A. 



Corvus varius, Brun. orn. bor. p. 8. N° 8. VA ^ ^d TED 



- CROW. 



*TPHE cheeks, fore part of the neck, middle of the belly, rump. Description. 



and quills, are white ; the reft black, as in the former. In 

 Brunnicb's bird, the head, bill, legs, coverts of the noftrils, fore 

 part of the neck, belly, and quills from the firft to the feventeenth, 

 were white ; all the other parts black. 



Both of thefe birds are faid to come from the ifland of Ferroe §, Place. 



where fuch birds are faid to keep feparate from the other com- 

 mon Crows of the ifland. 



• At leaft at Shtehec. " Even the Crow does not venture to expofe itfelf in 

 winter, but takes its flight in autumn." Kalm. Trwu. iii. 206. 



f " They are better to eat than thofe of Europe, as they eat no carrion." Id. 

 p. 111. But again he fays, that they are like the Crows of Sweden; if fo, I 

 fear they will prove to be Rooks, which are as common there as the Crow is rare. 

 Id. vol. i. p. 121. 



X Tom. iv. p. 138. — Tom. v. p. 81. 



j| Former's Voy, vol. ii. p. 402. 



§ M. Saleme mentions one brought from Ferroe, whofe feathers were black, 

 white, and grey brown, mixed. Orn. p. 91. N° 10. 



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