CROW, 401 



mentioned in the Brhijh Zoology to have been fhot in Flintshire, 

 and another time in Kent, a mutilated fkin of which is now in 

 the houfe of an acquaintance of mine. I am informed that they 

 are alfo in North America, but not near the fea-coafts. One has 

 been brought from Kamtfchatka by the late voyagers. 



In manners it is faid greatly to refemble the Jay, laying up a Manners. 

 flore of acorns and nuts. In fome parts keep chiefly in the pine 

 forefts*, on the kernels of which it then feeds; but faid fre- 

 quently to pierce the trees like the Woodpecker, for which the bill 

 feems not unapt : makes its neft in holes of trees. Klein men- 

 tions two varieties, one fmaller than the other; the largefr, he 

 fays, breaks the nuts to pieces, and the other pierces them. Both 

 feed at times on wild berries and infects. 



Conms graculus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 158. N° 18. -g. 



Gracula pyrrhocorax, Scop. ann. i. p. 42. N° 46. •*- RED- 



Monedula pyrrhocorax, Hajfelq. It. p. 238. N° 19. LEGG ^ D 



Le Coracias, Brif. orn. ii. p. 3. pi. 1. f. i.—Buf. oif. iii. p. 1. pi. 1.— 



PI. tnl. 255. 

 Cornifh Chough, Rail Syn. p. 40. A. 6.— Will. orn. p. 126. pi. 19.— » 



Albin. ii. pi. 2^,—Borlafe. Cerntu. p. 249. pi. 24. 

 Red-legged Crow, Br. Zeal. i. N° 80. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



CIZE of a Jackdaw : length nearly fixteen inches. The bill Description, 



above two inches long, much curved, ftiarp at the tip, and of 

 the colour of red fealing-wax : the irides have two circles, the 

 outer reddilb, the inner grey : the eye-lids red : the plumage 



* Called by fome Pie tie Safixt, 



3 F wholly 



