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Var.B. 

 WHITE CROW. 



Description. 



Place. 



La Corneille blanche, Brif. orn. ii. p. 15. N° 2. B. 



/ ~f^H!S is wholly white, bill and legs not excepted. 

 This bird came from Iceland. 

 Schwenckfield * mentions one among his Silejian birds ; and 

 M. Salerne f mentions alfo a white Crow, but in his the colour 

 was not pure : the irides were- red. 



4- 

 4- ROOK. 



Description. 



Corvus frugilegus, Lin. Syft.l. p. 156. N° 4. 

 La Corneille moiflbnneufe, Brif. orn. ii. p. 16. N° 3. 

 Le Freux, ou la Frayonne, Buf. oif. iii. p. 55. — PL enl. 484, 

 Schwartze Kraehe, Fri/cb. t. 64. — Kramer el. p. 333. 

 Rook, Rait Syn. p. 39. A. 3. — Will. orn. p. 123.— Albin. ii. pi. 22.— ifro 

 Zoo/, i. N° j6.—Amer. Zool. N° 



-Br. Afa/. i?^. M»/"- 



IN fize fomewhat bigger than the laft, but the fame in colour: 

 fcarcely to be diftinguifhed apart, except from the circum- 

 ftance of being bare about the noftrils and root of the bill ; which 

 parts in the Crow are well clothed with feathers, and the latter 

 with briftly hairs : this arifes from one necefTary part of the man- 

 ners, viz. thrufting the bill into the earth continually, after 

 the various worms and eruca of infecls j:, on which it feeds ; for 

 it does not live on carrion, like the laft fpecies and Ravens. Be- 

 fides infefts, it alfo feeds on all forts of grain, to fome inconve- 

 nience perhaps to the hufbandman, but no doubt doubly repaid 



* P. 243. f Orn. p. 91. N" 9. 



t Particularly the Chafer, or Dor-beetle, Scarab, mekhntha, Linn, 



by 



