Locality. 
Nest, &c. 
82 OMNIVORI. PYRRHOCORAX. CORNISH 
Le Coracias, ou Le Coracias Huppe ou sonneur, Buff: Ois. v. 3. p. 1. and 9. 
fa Pr Pl 255, 
Stein-Krahe, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. y. 2. p. 1238.—Jd. Tasschenb. Deut. 
p- 91.—Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 101.—Id. Vég. Deut. t. Heft. 
Hermit Crow, Lath. Syn. 2. p. 403. 41.—Gesner’s Wood Crow, p. 396. 
Cornish Chough, Albin. 2. t. 24.—Will. (Angl.) p. 126. t. 19.—Haye’s Br. 
Birds, t.-6. 
Red-legged Crow, Br. Zool. 1. No. 80. t. 35.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 1. t. 41.— 
Lath. Syn. 1. p. 401.—Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Id. Suppl.— Pult. Cat. Dor- 
set. p. 6.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. p. 80.—Shaw’s Zool. 7. p. 378. 
Provincial, Cornish Daw, Cornwall Kae, Killigrew, Chauk- 
Daw, Market-Jew Crow. 
The Chough is far from being a numerous species in this 
country, and is confined to particular districts. It is found 
on the rocky coasts of Cornwall and Devonshire in England, 
and in Flintshire, Denbighshire, and the Isle of Anglesea in 
Wales*. In Scotland, it inhabits the precipices of some of the 
Hebrides, and the western shores of the mainland. On the 
Continent, it is numerous in the Swiss Alps, and in the Ty- 
rol, frequenting the loftier regions, and the confines of the 
glaciers, where it breeds, associated with another species, the 
Alpine Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax). With us, it is 
seldom seen far inland, breeding on the sea-cliffs, or in old 
castles and church-towers near the shore.—'The nest is formed 
of sticks, lined with a great quantity of wool and hair. The 
egos are of a bluish-white colour, speckled at the larger end 
with yeliowish-brown. It is a bird of a lively gait, and of a 
restless and crafty disposition, and, like many of the crow 
genus, its attention is particularly caught by glittermg ob- 
jects. Its natural food principally consists of insects, even 
the smallest of which it is enabled to reach in the crevices of 
rocks and the joints of walls, by the aid of its slender and 
sharp-pointed bill. It also eats grain and berries. 
It has been remarked, that the chough will not alight up- 
on the turf, if it can possibly avoid it, always preferring gra- 
vel, stones or walls. It is easily domesticated, when begun 
with at an early period ; and an interesting account of a tame 
bird of this species is given by Monracu, in the Supplement 
* Tt also abounds in the Isle of Man. 
