€ R O W. 



3*3 



£e Choucas chauve> Buf. oif. iii. p. 80. PI. enl. 52 is 

 Lev. Muf, 



IGGER than the laft : length thirteen inches. The bill 

 ftrong, rather bent, and of a dufky black : the plumage on 

 the upper part of the body is of a ferruginous brown ; beneath 

 paler, more inclining to red, as are the upper tail coverts : legs 

 dufky. The great Angularity of this bird confifts in the fore part 

 of the head, which, as far as the crown, and beyond the eyes, is 

 totally bare of feathers :. the chin is fparingly covered with them. 

 Whether this baldnefs is the efFect merely of rooting into the 

 ground with its bill, like the Rooks in England; or whether 

 fo formed by nature, cannot well be determined ; it may perhaps 

 be the firft cafe-, as we know that the bill of the Rook is, while 

 young, as completely clothed with briftles, which cover the nof- 

 trilS, and with feathers at the root of it, as the Crow ; let us 

 therefore conclude it to be the fame with this bird, till experience 

 ihall evince the contrary. . 



Inhabits Cayenne. Manners totally unknown* 



16. 

 BALD CROW. 



Description, 



Place. 



Lev. Muf, . 



T ENGTH ten inches and a half, 

 the end, and notched near the tip 



Bill ftrait, fomewhat bent at 

 colour of it black: the 

 plumage on the upper part of the body is cinereous, beneath 

 paler, verging to reddifh brown: forehead and throat paleft of 

 all, almoft approaching to white ; among the feathers of this laft 

 part are fome {tender hairs : hind head and nape dufky black: 



quills 



17- 



PACIFIC 



CROW. 



Description* 



