378 C R O W. 



9- Gorvus monedula, Lin. Syll. I, p. 156. N° 6. —Scop. ants. i. p. 36. N° 38s 



<*- JACKDAW. Muller, V .iz. 



Le Choucas, Brif. orn. ii. p. 24. N° 6. — .So/". e//l iii. p. 69. — iV. enl. 523. 

 Dohle, Gxave Dohle, Kram. el. p. 334. — Frifch. pi. 67. 

 Jackdaw, i?«7 Syn. p. 40. A. 5- — Will. orn. p. 125. pi. 19. — Albiu. i. 

 pi. 14.— Br. Zoo!, i. N° 81. pi. 34. 



Jr. Ma/ Lev. Muf. . 



Description. HpHE Jackdaw is about the fize of a fmall Pigeon, though 

 not fo thick in the body: the length is full thirteen inches,. 

 The bill an inch and a quarter long, and black : the irides are 

 white : the forehead and crown of the head, fides, round the eyes,, 

 and the chin,. are of a gloffy black : the hind head and back part 

 of the neck of an elegant cinereous grey, which paries on each 

 fide to the breaft, where it is much darker : the reft of the 

 plumage is of a glofiy black,, though inclining to dufky beneath : 

 the legs are black. 

 Manners. Thefe birds are pretty common in England^ where they remain 



the whole year : they fcarce ever build the neft in trees, but are in- 

 clined to make ufe of rocks, old towers, and ruined edifices, which 

 are out of the reach of plundering boys j and are known to build in. 

 the interflices between the upright pillars of Stonehetige, in Wilt- 

 Jkire *. They lay five or fix eggs, which are paler, fmaller, and 

 have fewer fpots on them, than thofe of Crows. Thefe are fre- 

 quently and eafily brought up tame ; are accuftomed to hide that 

 part of their food which they cannot eat, and often, with it, fmall 

 valuables, occafioning fufpicions of theft, for the prefent, in fome 



* Pennant alfo obferves, that they make ufe of rabbet-holes in fome parts of 

 Hampjhire. See Br. Zool. i. p. 231. 



5 perfons, 



