i68 ROOK. Clafslt 



fed for their deilrudion, in which rooks and choughs, 

 were included. Every hamlec was to provide crow 

 Tiers for ten years ; and all the inhabitants were obliged 

 -at certain times to affemble during that fpace, to con- 

 iult the propereft method of extirpating them. 



Though the crov^ abounds in our country, yet in 

 Szveden it is fo rare that Linnaus 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 : both thefe birds are often found white 

 or pied ; an accident that befals black birds more 

 frequently than any others. The crow weighs about 

 twenty ounces. Its length eighteen inches : its 

 breadth two htt two inches. 



III. The ROOK. 



La Graye, Grolle ou Freux. LaCorneilleMoiiToneufe. Brifon 



Beion ai). 2S3. a^. ii. 16. 



Cornix frugi%'ora.(Roeck)G?/'/7?r Roka, Faun. Suec. ^-j. 



a'v. 332. Spermologus, feufrugilega. Caii 

 Aldr. a'v. i. 378. cpufc. 100. 



Wii. cm. iz-t,. Schwartze kran, Schwartze 

 Raii/yn. arj. 39. krahe. Kram. 333. 



Corvus frugikgus. Z/k._/5>'^' 'S^' Br. Zool. 76. 



THIS bird differs not greatly in its form from the 

 carrion crow : the fize of the rook is fuperior j 

 but the colors in each are the fame, the plumage of 

 both being q;lofred with a rich purple. But what dif- 

 tincruiihes the rook from the crow is the bill ; the 

 noftrils, chin, and fides of that and the mouth being 

 in old birds white and bared of feathers, by often 



thrull- 



