a CARRION CROW. Crass Il 
carrion and other filth. It. will alfo eat grain and 
infects; and like the raven will pick out the eyes 
of young lambs when juft dropped: for which rea- 
fon it was formerly diftinguifhed from the rook, 
which feeds entirely on grain and infects, by the 
name of the gor or gorecrow; thus Ben Fobnfon 
in his Fox, a I. fcene 2. 
Vulture, kite, 
Raven and gor-crow, all my birds of prey. 
Virgil fays that its croaking foreboded rain: 
Tum Cornix plena pluviam vocat improba voce. 
It was alfo thought a bird of bad omen, efpecially 
if it happened to be feen on the left hand: 
Sepe finiftra cava predixit ab ilice Cornix. 
England breeds more birds of this tribe than any ~ 
other country in Europe. In the twenty-fourth of 
Henry VII. they were grown fo numerous, and 
thought fo prejudicial to the farmer, as to be 
confidered an evil worthy parlementary redrefs: an 
act was pafied for their deftruction, in which rooks 
and choughs were included. Every hamlet was to 
provide crow nets for ten years; and all the inha- 
bitants were obliged at certain times to affemble 
during that fpace, to confult the propereft method 
of extirpating them. | 
Though the crow abounds in our country, yetin | 
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