Crass IL. Ri) OW | Ki 
Sweden it is fo rare, that Linneus mentions it only 
as a bird that he once knew killed there. 
It lays the fame number of eggs as the raven, 
and of the fame color: immediately after deferting 
their young, they go in pairs. Both thefe birds 
are often found white, or pied; an accident that 
befals black birds more frequently than any o- 
thers: I have alfo feen one entirely of a pale 
brown color, not only in its plumage, but even in 
its bill and feet. The crow weighs about twen- 
ty ounces. Its length eighteen inches: its breadth 
two feet two inches. 
La Graye, Grolle ou Freux. La Corneille Moiffoneufe. 
Belon av. 233. 
Cornix frugivora 
Gefner av. 332. 
Aldr. av. I. 373. 
Wil. orn. 123. 
Raii fyn. av. 39. 
Corvus frugilegus, 
156 
Hifi. d’ Oys. UI. 55. 
(Roeck). 
Lin. fpf. 
Le Freux, ou la Frayonne. 
Briffon av. XI. 16. 
Roka. Faun. Suec. 87. 
Spermologus, feu frugilega. 
Caii opufc. 100. 
Schwartze krau, Schwartze 
krahe. Kram. 333. Frifch, 
I. 64. 
Br. Zool. 76. 
| 4 Rook is the Corvus of Virgil, no other 
{pecies of this kind being gregarious. 
FE paftu decedens agmine magno 
Corvorum increpuit denfis exercitus alis. 
A very natural defcription of the evening return 
of thefe birds to their nefts. 
Q3 
This 
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76. Rook. 
