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JACK-DAW. 



Class II. 



thirty-three inches; the length sixteen. Its color 

 is wholly black, beautifully glossed over with 

 blue and purple : the legs and bill are of a 

 bright orange, inclining to red : the tongue al- 

 most as long as the bill, and a little cloven : the 

 claws large, hooked, and black. Scopoli says 

 that in Carniola the feet of some, during autumn, 

 turn black. 



[The chough inhabits the lofty cliffs about the 

 mid-region of the highest mountains of Greece, 

 but never the maritime parts, as with us. Ed.] 



9> Jack-daw. Corvus Monedula. C. fusco-ni- 



gricans, occipiteincano, fronte 



alis caudaque nigris. Lath. 



Ind. orn. 154. id. Syn. i. 378. 



id. Sup. i. 78. 

 Chouca, Chouchette, on Chou- 



ette. Belon av. 286'. 

 Gracculus, seu monedula. Ges- 



ner av. 521. 

 Aldr. av. i. 387- 

 Wil. orn. 125. 

 Jlaii Syn. av. 40. 

 Le Choucas. Brisson av. 24. 



Hist, d'ois. iii. 69. PI. Enl. 

 523. 



Scopoli, No. 38. 

 Mulacchia ncra. Zinan.^0. 

 Corvus Monedula. Gm. Lin, 



367. 

 Kaja. Faun. Suec. sp. 8Q. 

 Danish Alike. Norv. Kaae, 



Kaye, Raun Kaate, Raage, 



Br. 31. 

 Tagerl, Dohle, Tschockerl, 



Kram. 334. 

 Graue-Dohle. Frisch, i.67. J 

 Br. Zool. 78. Arcl. Zool. i, 



294. 



Descrip- i_ HE jack-daw weighs nine ounces : the length 

 is thirteen inches ; the breadth twenty-eight. 

 The head is large in proportion to its body, 



