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'“HOODED CROW. CLassiR 
kinds of trees: lay fix eggs: have a fhriller note 
than the common crows, are much more mif- 
chievous, pick out the eyes of lambs, and even 
of horfes when engaged in bogs: are therefore in 
many places profcribed, and rewards given for 
killing them. For want of other food, they will 
eat cran-berries and other mountain berries. 
Belon, Gefner, and Aldrovand, agree that this is a 
bird of paffage in their refpective countries: that 
it reforts in the breeding feafon to high moun- 
tains, and defcends into the plains on the ap- 
proach of winter. It breeds alfo in the fouthern 
parts of Germany, on the banks of the Danube*. 
The weight of this fpecies is twenty-two ounces ; 
the length twenty-two inches; the breadth twenty- 
three. The head, under fide of the neck, and 
wings are black, gloffed over with a fine blue: 
the breaft, belly, back, and upper part of the 
neck, are of a pale afh color: the irides hazel: 
the legs black, and weaker than thofe of the 
Rook. The bottom of the toes are very broad 
and flat, to enable them to walk without finking on 
marfhy and muddy grounds, where they are con- 
verfant. 
* Kram. 333. 
