





ORD I. GEN... CROW. 
SPE. Vi OF A Y. 
Pl. 38. 
Corvus glandarius. Lin. Sy. 1. p. 156. 
Le Geai. Brif. Orn. II. p. 47. 
This beautiful bird weighs feven ounces, is in length thirteen inches, and in 
‘breadth twenty-one. The bill is dark horn colour: eyes white: the head is 
fomewhat crefted; the fore part white, dafhed with black; chin white; from 
the angles of the mouth a broad black ftreak paffes under the eye: the hind 
part of the head, fides, neck, breaft, back, and {capulars, are of a pale red pur- 
ple colour: the fmaller wing coverts chefnut colour, the greater elegantly bar- 
red with rich blue and black: the rump is white: tail black: legs brown. 
This fpecies is a conftant inhabitant of our woods, and thence makes excur- 
fions to the fields and gardens near, in queft of beans, peafe, and ripe fruit. In 
the winter feafon it feeds on acorns, and alfo eats nuts. It is a very fhy bird in 
the ftate of nature, but when brought up from the neft very docile, and may be 
taught to imitate the human voice pretty well. It builds its neft on the tops of 
underwood, fuch as hazel, thorns, or low birch, and lays four eggs. The 
young follow their parents till the fpring, when they feparate to pair for the 
breeding feafon. 
For the egg, fee Pl. IX. Fig. 3. 

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