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COEVTJS CORNIX. 



(HOODED CROW.) 



Corvus comix, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 156 (1766). 



Corone comix (L.), Kaup, Nat. Syst. p. 99 (1829). 



Corvus comix cegyjptiaca, A. E. Brehm, Journ. fur Orn. 1853, Extraheft, p. 97. 



Corvus subcomix, C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 57 (1855). 



Corvus tenuirostris, id. ut supra (1855). 



Corvus cinereus, id. ut supra (1855). 



Eoyston Crow, Hooded Crow, Hoodie, English ; Frannag, Gaelic ; Corbeau mantele, Comeille 

 mantelee, French ; Nebelkrahe, German ; Corronca, Comacchia, Mulacchia, Italian ; Graa 

 Erage, Danish ; Kraake, Norwegian ; Kraka, Grd Kraka, Swedish. 



Figure notabiles. 



D'Auhenton, PI. Enl. 76 ; Werner, Atlas, Omnivores, pi. 3 ; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. xi. ; 

 Frisch, Vog. Deutschl. pi. 65 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. pi. 28. fig. 1 ; Sundevall, Sv. Fogl. pi. xx. 

 fig. 2 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 22 ; id. Birds of G. B. iii. pi. lix.; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. 

 taf. 54. fig. 1 ; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. 



<S ad. coracino-niger cseruleo et violaceo refulgens : collo postico et lateraliter, dorso et abdomine griseis : 

 supracaudalibus nonnullis medialiter nigris vel nigris griseo marginatis : rostro et pedibus nigris : 

 iride fusca. 



2 ad. mari similis sed paullo minor. 



Adult Male (Seeland, Denmark, 17th May). Head, throat (excepting the sides), down to and including the 

 upper part of the breast, wings, and tail glossy black, with blue and violet reflections ; back and sides 

 of the neck, back and underparts, except as before stated, ashy grey ; some of the upper tail-coverts 

 with the centre of the feather violet-black, others almost entirely black, the upper ones, however, being 

 ashy grey ; feathers at the end of the tibia black ; legs and beak black ; iris dark brown. Total length 

 19 inches, culmen 2'2, wing 12'6, tail 7 - 8, tarsus 2 - 4. 



Female (Copenhagen, 12th February). Similar in plumage to the male, but with rather less black on the 

 fore part of the neck, and smaller in size, measuring — culmen 2*1, wing 12 - 2, tail 7*6, tarsus 2 - 3. 



The Hooded Crow is found throughout Europe, much commoner in the eastern than in the 

 western portions of the continent, Northern Africa, and Northern and Central Asia, eastward 

 to Kultuk, in Eastern Siberia. In Great Britain it is commoner in the north than in the 

 southern counties. Mr. A. G. More (Ibis, 1865, p. 133) writes respecting its distribution 

 during the breeding-season as follows : — " Mr. Laver, of Colchester, has informed Dr. C. E. Bree 



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