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OMNIVO&&. 

 Family CORVID^. 



Genus Pyrrhocorax. (Cumer.) 



Generic Characters. — Beak middle sized, compressed, rather 

 slender, slightly curved above, and very slightly hollowed out 

 at the point; nostrils basal, lateral, ovoid, and concealed by 

 stiff feathers. Feet strong and thick like those of the crows; 

 tarsi longer than the middle toe; toes four, almost entirely 

 separated; claws strong and hooked. "Wings long and pointed, 

 the fourth and fifth quills longest. Tail rounded. 



ALPINE CHOUGH. 



Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax. 



Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, 

 " alpinus, 



Corvus pyrrhocorax, 



Corvo colcallino, 

 Choucas des Alps, 

 Gemeine alpenkrake, 



Temminck; Man. 1820. 



SCHINZ. SCHLEGEL. 



Cuviee; Eeg. An., 1829. 

 Vieillot ; Diet, et Faun. France, 



p. 125., 1817. 

 Lesson ; Orn., 1831. 

 Ch. Bonaparte. 

 Ketseeling- et Blasius. 

 Linn^us ; S. N., 1766. 

 Gmelin; Syst., 1788. 

 Latham; Ind., 1790 

 Meyer et Wolff., 1810. 

 Temminck ; Man., 1815. 

 Stoe. 



Of the French. 

 Of the Germans. 

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