LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Subclass NEORNITHES. 



Section CARINAT^. 



Order PASSERIFORMES. 



Suborder ACROMYODI. 

 Family CJORVID^. 



Genus CORVUS Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 105. 

 Type : C. corax Linn. 



Coi-vus — The Baven, in classical Latin, Akin to KopaJ, comix, corone, 

 our Karen, Book, and to Kpwl^ia = I oaw, Kpai^w = I cry, and Engl, to " ring." 



Corvas corax. Raven. 



Oorvus corax Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 105 : Sweden. 



Corvus corax Linn. ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds S. M. iii. 1877, p. 14 ; 

 B. O.TT. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 70 ; Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 

 1899, p. 241. 



Corax = Kopa^, a Raven or Crow, in classical authors. Akin to our " Book," 

 from the root KpiWCui = I caw. Cf . Corvus. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — Resident, local in 

 England, Wales and Ireland, where it is chiefly confined to 

 the precipitous coast-line and fell-districts. More general 

 in Scotland, and common in the remoter parts o£ the 

 Highlands and Islands. It is more widely distributed in the 

 winter months. 



General Distribution. — The typical form of the Haven is 

 found throughout northern and central Europe and as far 

 east as western Siberia ; south to the Pyrenees, north Italy, 

 and Hungary. Races have been recognised in the Faeroes, 



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