J?- 6 



C ROW. 



fmali flocks near London, where they are feldom much perfecuted, 

 being fuppofed an ufeful bird, 



6. 



WHITE- 

 BREASTED 

 CROW. 

 Pl. XV. 



La Corneille du Senegal, Buf. oif. iii. p. 6-J.—P1. ml. 327. 

 Corvus dauricus, Pallas Tray. vol. i. p. 694, N° 8. 

 Chinefe black Ravens with white necks, OJh, Voy. vol. i. p. 377. 

 White-breafled .Crow, Fryer's Tranj, p. 21. 



Place 



AND 



Makkz&s. 



Description. OIZE of a fmall Crow : length twelve inches or more. Bill 

 black : the head and throat are black, glofied with blue : the 

 neck and breaft white : the reft of the body, wings, and tail, blue 

 black : legs lead-colour : claws black. 



The bird figured in the Planches enluminees came from Senegal 1 

 ibut it is by no means confined to that quarter. There is no 

 doubt of it being the one defcribed by Pallas, above quoted, 

 which he fays come early in the fpring in great flights from China, 

 and the fouthern Monguls country, into the parts about the Lake 

 Baikal, but moft frequent about the towns and villages on the 

 river Lena, in which part the Jackdaws and Royjion Crows are 

 very feldom feen. 



I am well informed alfo, that they are found in vaft numbers 

 in the ifland of Johanna, where they live chiefly on infefts and 

 fruits, and make their nefts in trees. 



Pallas mentions a variety of thefe, found among the others, 

 which is almoft wholly black : the nape of the neck and the 

 throat brown. 



I have alfo been favoured with a further variety, in a drawing 



from Mr. Pennant, in which not only the ufual parts, but alfo the 



belly and vent, were white ; a figure of which we have thought fit 



£0 add to this work. See PI. XV. 



I think 



