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ORD. I. GEN. I. CROW. 
SPE. VII. RED LEGGED CROW. 
Pl. 39. 
Corvus graculus. Lin. Syft. 1. p. 158. 
Le Coracias. Bri/. Orn. Il. p. 3. 
This is an elegant flender made bird, and bears no refemblance to the others 
of this genus, except in the general colour of the plumage. Its length is near- 
ly fixteen inches, breadth two feet eight inches, weight thirteen ounces. The 
bill is much carved, fharp at the tip, and of a beautiful red colour: the noftrils 
are-not covered with briftles: the eyes have two circles, the outer reddifh, the 
inner grey: eyelids red: the feathers on the upper parts of the body are of a 
purplifh black colour ; thofe on the under parts of a dull blue black: the legs 
are long, flender, and the colour of the bill. 
This fpecies is fuppofed to be more common in England than elfewhere, but 
is confined to particular parts of it, namely the coafts of Devonhhire and Corn- 
wall, and the cliffs of Dover. Some call it the Cornifh chough. It is alfo 
met with on the coafts of Wales and Scotland. It feeds on infects and fruit, 
and makes its neft in rocks, cliffs, and old towers, and lays four or five eggs, 
for which fee Pl. X. Fig. 3. 



