CARRION CROW. Class IL 



Eiio-land breeds more birds of this tribe than 

 any other country in Europe. In the twenty- 

 fourth of Henry VIII. they were grown so nu- 

 merous, and thought so prejudicial to the far- 

 mer, as to be considered an evil worthy of par- 

 lementary redress : an act w^as passed for their 

 destruction, in which rooks and choughs were 

 included. Every hamlet Avas to provide crow 

 nets for ten years, and all the inhabitants w^ere 

 obliged at certain times to assemble during that 

 period to consult the properest method of extir- 

 pating them. 



Though the crow abounds in our country, yet 

 in Sweden it is so rare, that Linnceus mentions 

 it only as a bird that he once knew killed there. 



Crows lay the same number of eggs as the 

 raven, and of the same color : immediately after 

 deserting their young, they go in pairs. Both 

 these birds arc often found white, or pied ; an 

 accident that befals black birds more frequently 

 than those of any other color. I have also seen 

 one entirely of a pale brown color, not only in 

 its plumage, but even in its bill and feet. The 

 crow weighs about twenty ounces. Its length is 

 eighteen inches ; its breadth two feet two inches. 



They come from Hungary into Italy in 

 March, and re-migrate in flocks in October ; 

 many remain during the w inter. 



