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CROW, 



bill, white irides, blueilh legs, and the fecondary quills, rump, and 

 bafe of the tail, yellow *. I cannot therefore fuppofe them to be 

 the fame bird, though Brifon has fo placed them in his fy- 

 nonyms. 



33- 

 AFRICAN 



CROW. 

 Description. 



Place. 



Lev. Muf. 



T ENGTH one foot ten inches. Bill red : the head and neck 

 of a dark purple j the firft fomewhat crefted ; each feather 

 tipped with grey, as far as the hind head : back brown : belly 

 dirty pale afh-colour : quills blueifh on the outer edges: tail 

 much cuneated j the two middle feathers are twelve inches long, 

 the outer ones fhort j all of them tipped with white : the legs 

 are red. 



This fpecies is faid to come from Africa, and appears to have 

 much fimilarity with the laft defcribed, if not the fame bird; 

 wanting, however, in one part of the defcription, that the rump is, 

 not yellow. 



3.4- 

 MEXICAN 



CROW. 



Description. 



La grande Pie du Mexique, Brif. om. ii. p. 43. N° 4. 



L'Hocifana, Buf. oif. iii. p. 103. 



Hoitzanatl, Rati Syn. p. 162. 



Criard, Pernettj Voy. aux Malouines, vol. i. p. l8^. 



IZE of a Jackdaw. Bill black : the plumage wholly blue 

 black : legs and claws black -, the laft very long. 



9 This fecms to be the black and' yellow Oriole ? 



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