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CIZE of a Miffel-thruih : length eleven inches. The bill is 

 an inch and a half long, curved the whole length ; very like 

 that of the red-legged Crow, or laft fpecies, and imitating it 

 even in colour, being mofl like fine red fealing-wax : the noftrils 

 covered with black briftles reflefted over them : the head, upper 

 parts of the body, wings, and tail, are black ; the laft rounded at 

 the end: the wing coverts are mottled with white: the under 

 parts of the body are alh-colour : the legs dufky : claws black. 



Suppofed to inhabit Cayenne, as it was fhewn me among fome 

 others from that place. 



40. 



CAYENNE 



RED-BILLED 



CROW, 



Description. 



'lace. 



41. 



HERMIT 

 CROW. 



Corvus eremita, Lin. Syji. I. p. 159. N° 19. 

 Le Coracias hupe, Brif. orn. ii. p. 6. N° 2. 



■ _____ ou le Sonneur, Buf. oif. iii. p. 9. 



Gefner's Wood Crow, Will. orn. p. 396. 

 Wood Crow from Switzerland, Albin. iii. pi. 16. 



CIZE of a Hen. The bill long, pointed, bent, and of a red co- Descriptions 



lour : the head is crefted, of a dufky yellow, with ftreaks of 

 red : the whole plumage is black, with a glofs of green : the tail 

 is rather fhort : the legs of a deep red. 



From the name one would fuppofe thefe birds to be moft com- 

 mon in Switzerland, which is really the cafe, where they are 

 called Waldrapp and Steinrapp. Like the laft, build in rocks, 

 towers, and old ruined edifices. They fly very high, and are gre- 

 garious and migratory; arrive at Zurich with the Storks, the be- 

 ginning of April. The females lay two or three eggs, and the 

 young are able to fly about the beginning of June ; if taken 



3 F a young, 



