294 



RED LEGGED CROW. Class II. 



7. Red 

 Legged. 



Corvus Gracnlus. C. violaceo 



nigricans, rostro pedibusque 



luteis. Lath. Jnd. orn. 165. 



id.Syn. i. 401. id. Sup. i. 82. 



id. Sup. ii. 115. 

 Scurapola. Belon. obs. 12. 

 La Chouette ou Chouca rouge. 



Belon av. 280. 

 Pyrrhocorax gracculus saxatilis 



(Stein-tahen, Stein-frae). Ges- 



ner av. 522, 527. 

 Spelvier, Taccola. Aldr. av. i. 



386. 

 Wil. orn. 126. 

 Raii Syn. av. 40. 



Le Crave, ou Coracias Brisson 



av. ii. 4. Tab. 1. Hist.dois. 



iii. 1. Pl.Enl.255. . 

 The Killegrew. Charlton ex. 



75. 

 Cornwall Kae. Sib. Scot. 15. 

 Borlase Cornw. 24>Q. Tab. 24. 

 Camden, vol. i. 14. 

 Corvus Gracculus. Gm. Lin. 



377- 

 Monedula pyrrhocorax. Has- 



selquist itin. 238. 

 Gracula pyrrhocorax. Scopoli, 



No. 46. 

 Br. Zool. 83. plate L*. 



J- HIS species is but thinly scattered over the 

 northern world ; no mention is made of it by 

 any of the Faunists; nor do we find itin other 

 parts of Europe, except England, and the Alps.* 

 In Asia, the island of Candia produces it.'f In 

 Africa, JEgypt ; which last place it visits to- 

 wards the end of the inundations of the Nile%. 

 Except JEgypt it affects mountanous and rocky 

 situations ; it builds its nest in high cliffs, or 

 ruined towers, and lays four or five eggs, white 

 spotted with a dirty yellow. It feeds on in- 



* Plin. nat. hist. lib. X- c. 48. Brisson, ii. 5. 

 + Belon obs. 17. % Hasselquist itin. 240. 



