
ORD. I GEN. H. CROW. 
SPE. V. JACKDAW. 
Pl. 36. 
Corvus monedula. Lin. Sy/t. I. p. 156. 
Le Choucas. Brif. Orn. Il. p. 24. 
This fpecies is in length thirteen inches, breadth twenty-eight, and weighs 
nine ounces. The bill is dark horn colour: eyes pale grey: the crown of the 
head, fides round the eyes, and chin, are glofly black: hind part of the head, 
and back of the neck, grey, paffing on each fide to the breaft, where it is dark- 
er: the-reft of the plumage is of a dull black. 
This is a common bird in moft parts of England, and feeds on grain, fruit, 
and infeéts. It makes its neft in church fteeples, old caftles, and holes in cliff 
or rocks, and fometimes in the hollow of a decayed tree, and lays from four to 
fix eggs. It lives in large focieties, great numbers breeding and feeding toge- 
ther, and frequently flying with rooks in queft of food. 
The egg of this {pecies is reprefented at Fig. 2, of Pl. [X. 

