Class IL RAVEN. i79 



GENUS IV. CROW. 



Bill strait, strong, somewhat convex. 

 Nostrils covered with bristles reflected down. 

 Tongue cartilaginous, cloven. 



Corvus corax. C. ater, dorso Hist. cTois. m. 13. PI. Enl. 1. Raven, 



casrulescente, cauda subro- 495. 



tunda. Lath. Ind. orn. 150. Velch oni. Scopoli, No. 35. 



id. Syyi. i. 367. id. Sup. i. 74. Corvus corax. Gm. Lin. 364. 



id. Sup. ii. 106. Korp. Faun. Suec. 85. 



Le Corbeau. Belon av. 279. Danish Raun. Norv. Korp. 



Corvus. Gesner av. 334. Bi; 27. 



Corvo, Corbo. Aldr. av. \. 343. Rab. Kram. 333. Frisch. i. 



JViLorn. 121. 63. - ' ' 



Rail. syn. av. 39. Br. Z00l.75.Arci. Zool. i. 286. 

 Le Corbeau. Brisson av. ii. 8. 



J_ HIS species weighs three pounds ; its length Descrip. 

 is two feet two inches ; its breadth four feet. 

 The bill is strong and thick ; and the upper man- 

 dible convex. The color of the whole bird is 

 black, finely glossed with rich blue ; the belly 

 excepted, which is dusky. 



Ravens build in trees, and lay five or six eggs 

 of a pale green color marked with small brownish 

 spots. They frequent in numbers the neigh- 

 borhood of great towns, and are held in the 

 same sort of veneration as the vultures are in 



