R O W, 



Corvus Canadenfis, Lin. SyJ}. L p. 158. N*^. CINEREOUS' 



Le Geay brun de Canada, Brif. orn. ii. p. 54. N° 3. pi. 4. f. z.—Bttf. CROW 



eif. iii. p. wj.—Pl. enl. 530. 

 Cinereous Crow, Phil. Trattf. vol. Ixii. p. 386.— Amtr. Zool. N° 



Lev. Muf. 



I" ESS than our Jay: length nine inches: breadth eleven r Description. 



weight two ounces. The bill is blackifh, and not quite an 

 inch long : irides black : the forehead and throat are of a dirty 

 yellowilh white : hind head and fides blackifh brown : neck 

 whitifh : upper parts of the body brown, beneath pale afh, paleft 

 on the breaft : quills and tail brown, tipped with white 1 tail a 

 little wedged : legs and claws blackifho- 



Male and female alike. 



Thefe inhabit Canada ■, are frequent near Hudfon's Bay, where Place anb 

 they are called Whijkijohn and Whijkijack ; breed early in the 

 fpring, build in pine-trees, and have two, and rarely three, 

 young at a time. The eggs are blue. They are not gregarious. 

 Their food black mofs, worms, and flejh. Are very bold pilfer- 

 ing birds, Healing from the traveller even fait meat, and devour 

 often the bait from the traps fet for the Martins, as foon as the 

 perfons who fet them turn their backs. Lay up ftores for win- 

 ter, at which time they are fcldom feen, unlefs near habitations. 

 They do not bear confinement well; What natural note they 

 Have we are not told, but are faid to a£t the mocking bird,, im 

 imitating that of others. 



G«ai; 



Manners, 



