374 CEO Yf. 



5. Corvus cornix, Lin. SyJ}. 1. p. 156. N° 5.— &«/. Ann. i. p. 25. N° 37.— 



+. HOODED Muller, p. 11. 



CROW. ■ La Corneille mantelee, Erif. orn. ii. p, 19. N° 4. — Buf. oif. iii. p. 61. 



pi. 4. — PI. enl. j6. 

 Nebel Kraehe, Frifch. t. 65. 

 Grave Kran, Kranveitl, Kram. p. 333. 

 Royfton Crow, Rati Syn. p. 39. A. 4.— Will. orn. p. 124. pi. 18. 77.— 



Albin. ii. pi. 23. 

 Hooded Crow, Br. Zool. i. N° 77. — F/o^. &■<>/. vol. i. p. 20. pi. 2. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. 'T~ V ^^ fpecies is about the fize of the laflr, and twenty-two 

 ■*■ inches in length. The bill is two inches long: the headj, 

 fore part of the neck, wings, and tail, are of a fine glofiy blue 

 black : the reft of the body of a palifh afh-colcur : bill and legs 

 black : the irides hazel : the bottom of the toes broad and flat 3 

 to enable them to walk without finking on marfhy and muddy 

 grounds, where they are converfant*. 



This is an elegant fpecies, and in divers parts of England fuffi- 

 ciently plenty in winter; for at the approach of fpring it retires 

 from us to breed elfewhere. It is moft likely that the major part 

 of them go entirely out of England, but perhaps not all, as I have 

 been informed that they have been feen in our northern moun- 

 tainous counties in the fummer. " In Scotland they remain the 

 whole year, and is the only fpecies in the (/lands, and great part 

 of the Highlands,' growing fcarcer the nearer we approach to the 

 South : keep in pairs, except for fome time after the breeding-fea- 

 fon ; is moft affectionate to its mate f." They are alfo migra- 



• Br. Zool. i. p. 224J f Flora Scot. i. p. 20. 



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