BIRDS. PIES. Crow, 629 



confife of twelve quills ; at the bafe of the lower mandible are two wattles on each fide, the more 

 advanced of which is blue, and the hinder are orange yellow ; the irides are bright blue ; the legs 

 are long and blackifli, and the hinder claw is confiderably longer than the reft. Mr Latham, in his 

 Index, has thought proper to change the Latin name of the genus, as given above from Dr Gmelin's 

 edition of the Syftema naturae, to Callaeas, but without affigning any reafon. 



XIII. C R O W.- 1 1. C R V U S. 50. 



The bill is convex and fharp edged : The noftrils are covered 

 by reverfed briftly feathers : The tongue is cartilaginous, 

 and cleft at the tip : The feet are formed for walking. 



This genus is to be found in every climate ; its feveral fpecies are extremely prolific, remarkably 

 focial and gregarious, and very clamorous ; they build moflly in trees, fome fpecies forming vaft affo- 

 ciations, and lay ufually fix eggs each brood ; they are promifcuous feeders, eating both of animal 

 and vegetable food. Mr Latham adds to the Linnaean character, that the bill has a fmall tooth-like 

 procefs on each fide near the point ; the middle toe is joined to the outmoft as far as the firft joint, 



593 i. Hottentot Crow. — 1. Cort/us hotlentottus. 1. 



Is greenifh black, with an equal tail, and having very long whifkers. 



C. hottentottus. Lath. ind. orn. i. 156. n. 12. Borowfk. nat. ii. 103. n. 2. — Monedula capitis 

 bonae-fpei. Brill*, av. ii. 33. n. 10. t. 2. f. 2. Ger. orn. ii. 36. t. 148. — Choucas mouftache. Buff, 

 oif. iii. 79. — Choucas du Cap. PI. enl. n. 226. — Hottentot Crow. Lath. fyn. i. 380. n. 10, 



Inhabits at the Cape of Good Hope. — Is eleven inches long, being about the fize of a Thrufh : 

 The whifkers, which are black and near three inches long, rife from the bafe of the upper mandible 

 above the noftrils, and fimilar whifkers, but naffer and fhorter, are fituated on each fide at the angle 

 of the mouth ; the feathers of the fcrrg, or hind part of the neck, are longer and narrower than the 

 reft, and hang loofely. 



594 2. Raven — 2. Corpus Corax. 2. 



Is black, gloffed with bluifh on the back ; the tail is roimdifli. 



Corvus. Gefn. av. 334. Aldr. orn. i. 684. t. p. 685. Johnft. av. 38. t. 16". Raj. av. $g. n. 1. 

 BrhT. av. ii. 8. n. 1. — C. maximus. Scop. an. i. 34. n. 45. — C. Corax. Lath. ind. orn. i. 150. n. 1. — 

 Kcrp. Faun. fuec. n. 85. Faun, groenl. 62. n. 38. — Corbeau. Buff. oif. iii. 13. t. 2. PI. enl. 11. 

 495. — Rabe. Gunth. neft. t. 71. Frifch. av. t. 63. — Raven. Brit. zool. n. 74. Ar<ft. zool. ii. 

 245. n. 134. Alb. av. ii. 19. t. 20. Lewin. brit. b. i. t. 33. Id. t. vi. f. 1. Will. orn. 121. t. 18. 

 Ruffel, alep. 69. Lath. fyn. i. 367. n. 1. fup. 74. 



Inhabits all Europe, Siberia, Kamtfchatka, and North America as far fouth as New-fpain. — This 

 is the largeft fpecies of the genus, meafuring two feet two inches in length, and weighing three 

 pounds: It feeds on carrion, birds, eggs, fmall birds, and fick or weakly lambs, fheep, fifli, fhell- 

 fifh, and wild berries, and, when preffed with hunger, will even devour dried fkinsj and excrements; 



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