296 



JACK-DAW. 



Class IL 



bright orange 



inclinino; to red 



most as long as the bill, and a little cloven 



thirty-three inches; the length sixteen. Its color 

 is wholly black, beautifully glossed over with 

 blue and purple : the legs and bill are of a 



the tongue al- 

 the 



claws large, hooked, and black. ScopoU says 

 that in Carniola the feet of some, during autumn, 

 turn black. ; > ■ ' • . ^^ 



[The chough inhabits the lofty cliffs about the 

 mid-region of the highest mountains of Greece, 

 but never the maritime parts, as with us. Ed.] 



S. JacK'DAW, Corvus Monedula. C. fusco-ni- 



gricans, occipite Incano, fronte 



alls caudaque nigvis. hatli. 



Ind. orn. 154. id. Sijn.\.3TB. 



id. Sup. i. 78. 

 Chouca, Chouchette, ou Chou- 



ette. Belon an. 285'. 

 Gracculus, seu monedula. Ges- 



ner uv. 521. 

 Aldr. av. i. 387. 

 }Fil. orn. 125. ■ ., ^ 



Rail Syn. av. 40. 

 Le Choucas. Brisson av. 24. 



BisL dois. iii. 6q. PL Enl. 



ScopoU, No. 38. 

 Mulacchia nera. Zinan.'/O. 

 Corviis Monedula. Gm. Lin. 



367. 

 Kaja. Faun. Si/rr. sp. SQ. 

 Danish Alike. Norv. Kaae, 



Kaye, Raun Kaate, Raage. 



Br. 31. 

 Tagcrl, Dohle, Tschockerl. 



Kram. 334. 

 Graue- Dohle. Frisch, i.67. 

 Br. Zool. 7S. Arci. Zool. u 



204. 



Descrip- J_ he jack-daw weighs nine ounces : the length 

 is thirteen inches ; the breadth twenty-eight. 

 The head is large in proportion to its body, 



TION. 



