Class II. CARRION CROW. 231 



Corvus corone. C. atro-casrules- llaii Sy?i. av. 3Q. 3, Carrion. 



cens totus, cauda rotundata, La Corbine. Hist, d'ois. iii. 



rectricibus acutis. Lath. Ind. 45. PI. Enl. 483. 



orn. 151. id- Syn. i. 370. id. La Corneille. Brisson av. 12. 



Sup. i. 75. id. Sup. ii. 108. Corvus corone. Gm. Lin. 365. 



La Corneille. Belon av. 28 K Faun. Suec 86. 



Cornix (Krae). Gesner av. 320. Krage. I?r. 30. 



Cornice, Cornacchio. ^/c/r. au. -B?\ Zoo/. 75. -4?c/. Zoo/, i, 



i. 36g. 287- 



Wil. orn. 122. Oru. Scopoli, No. 36- 



J_HE crow in the form of its body agrees 

 with the raven ; also in its food, which is car- 

 rion and other filth. It will also eat grain and 

 insects, and like the raven will pick out the eyes 

 of young lambs when just dropped ; for which 

 reason it was formerly distinguished from the 

 rook, which feeds entirely on grain and insects, 

 by the name of the gor or gorecroxv ; thus Ben 

 Jonson in his Fox, act I. scene 2. 



Vulture, kite. 

 Raven and gor-crow, all my birds of prey. 



Virgil says that its croaking foreboded rain : 



Turn Cornix plena pluviam vocat improha voce. 



It was also thought a bird of bad omen : 



Scepe sinistra cava prcedixit al ilice Cornix. 



