Class II. 



CARRION CROW. 



281 



Corvus corone. C. atro-cas rules- Rail Syn. av. 3Q, 



cens totus, cauda rotundata. La Corbine. Hist. 



rectricibus acutis. Lath. Ind- 



orn. 151. id- Syn. i. 370. id. 



Sup. 1. 75. id. Sup. ii. 108. 

 La Corneille. Belon av. 281. 

 Comix (Krae). Gesver av. 320. 

 Cornice, Cornacchio. Aldr. av. 



i. 36g. 

 Wil. orn. 122. 



2. Carrion. 



d'ois. lii. 



45. PI. Enl. 483. 

 La Corneille. Brisson av. 12. 

 Corvus corone. Gm. Lin. 365. 

 Faun. Suec 86. 

 Krage. Br. 30. 

 Br. Zool. 75. Arct. Zool. {• 



287- 

 Oru. Scopoli, No. 36. 



J_HE crow in the form of its body agrees 

 with the raven ; also in its food, which is car- 

 rion and other filth. It will also eat grain and 

 insects, and like the raven will pick out the eyes 

 of young lambs when just dropped ; for which 

 reason it was formerly distinguished from the 

 rook, which feeds entirely on grain and insects, 

 by the name of the gor or gorecroxv ; thus ^en 

 Jonson in his Fo.v, act 1. scene 2. 



Vulture, kite. 

 Raven and gor-crow, all my birds of prey. 



Virgil says that its croaking foreboded rain : 



Turn Cornix plena pluviam vocat improla voce. 



It was also thought a bird of bad omen : 



Scepe sinistra cava prcedixit ah ilice Cornix. 



