CAEEION-CEOW. 



CORVUS CORONE, Linn. 



Corvus corone^ Linn. S. N. i. p. 155 (1776) ; Naum. ii, p. 54; 

 Macg. i, p. 516; Hewitson, i. p. 222; Yarr. ed. 4, ii. 

 p. 274; Dresser, iv. p. 531. 



Corneille noire, French ; Krdhen-Rahe , German ; Graja, 

 Grajo, Grajillo, Spanish. 



Professor A. Newton, in the 4th edition of Yarrell's 

 * British Birds,' has given such cogent reasons for con- 

 sidering this Crow as specifically inseparable from the 

 Grey Crow {^Corvus cornio)), that I will not say more 

 than that my principal reason for not wholly accepting 

 his conclusion is the difference of note between the two 

 birds. I may at once state, as a well-known fact, that 

 in districts in which both forms are resident they inter- 

 breed freely. 



The Black Carrion-Crow is only too well known in 

 most parts of England and the lowlands of Scotland as 

 a thorough " detrimental," and I know of nothing to be 

 recorded in defence of this common malefactor. 



