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purple. Feathers on the back of the neck long, loose, 
and silky. Legs and claws black. 
This bird is subjected to considerable variation of plumage, Varieties. 
being sometimes found of a pure white, or of a piebald 
appearance. I possessed two of a Sienna yellow colour, 
with the wings and tail inclining to yellowish-grey, with 
red irides, and with the bill, legs, and toes, flesh-red, 
taken from the same nest, in which were also two of the 
usual colour. 
x» Jackdaw.—-Corvus monedula, Linz. 
PLATE 81. Fig. 1. 
Corvus monedula, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 156. 6.—Fau. Suec. No. 89.—Gmel. 
Syst. 1. p. 376. sp. 6.—ZLath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 154. sp. 11.—Briss, 2. 
p. 24. 6.—Raii, Syn. p. 40. t. 5.—Will. p. 85. t. 19. 
Le Choucas, Buff: Ois. v. 3. p. 69.—Id. Pl. Enl. 523. 
Choucas, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 111. 
Die Dohle oder Turm-Rabe, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 2. p. 1213.—Frisch, 
Vog. t. 67. and 68.—Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 99. 
Jackdaw, Br. Zool. 1. No. 81. t. 34.—Arct. Zool. 2. p. 251.— White’s Hist. 
Selb. p. 59. & 60.—Lath. Syn. 1. p. 378. 9.—Id. Sup. p. 78.—Lewin’s Br. 
Birds, 1. t. 37.— Will. (Ang.) p. 125. t. 19.—Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Pult. 
Cat. Dorset. p. 5.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. 73.—Low’s Fau. Orcad. p. 48. 
sp. 3.—Shaw’s Zool. 7. p. 350. 
Provincial, Daw. 
This well-known species is an inhabitant of all the culti- Locality. 
vated districts of England and Scotland. The belfries of 
churches, old towers, and large deserted buildings, are its fa- 
vourite abodes. ‘These are its usual breeding places, but 
where such situations do not occur, it has recourse to the 
holes of decayed trees, or to the ledges of rocks, and has been 
known even to build in a rabbit burrow *. The nest is com- Nest, &c. 
posed of sticks, and lined with wool and other soft materials. 
The eggs, which vary from four to seven, are of a pale green- 
ish-blue, spotted with blackish-brown, rather confluent at the 
* See Pennant’s British Zoology. 
