6 CROW. 



M. Sonnini * mentions it as a bird of Egypt, a few appearing 

 with flocks of other sorts of Crows, which frequent the inhabited 

 places about Rosetta, in February. 



Mr. White observes, that while at Gibraltar a single pair inhabited 

 the South point of the Rock, and were masters of the district, suffer- 

 ing no intruders whatever, and that he has received a specimen from 

 Algiers, no way differing from the common sort.f Mr. Markwick % 

 mentions the antipathy between the Raven and Rook, and gives two 

 instances of all the Rooks forsaking a rookery, on a Raven building 

 a nest on the spot, and that in the latter instance § the flight of the 

 Rooks was considered by the country people as ominously portending 

 the death of the possessor, who then was ill ; but he afterwards 

 recovered. 



A.— Corax crucirostra, Daud. ii. 22G. 



This variety has the two mandibles crossing each other. 



B. — Corvus borealis albus, Bris. vi. App. 33. t. 2. f. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 1C3. 



The head in this is white, spotted with black ; neck and body 

 above, and breast, glossy black, under parts white ; quills white, 

 with the outer margins dusky ; tail varied black and white. 



Found in the Island of Ferroe. 



* Trav. ii. 239. f Lin. Trans, i. p. 127. 



% Rookery at Broomham, near Hastings, at the Bishop of Chichester's. —It was, how- 

 ever, the arrival of the Raven which was considered portentous of death, as Lady Macbeth 

 says— 



" The Raven himself is hoarse 

 " That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan 

 " Under my Battlements." Macb. Act I. Sc. V. 



§ It was received by the name of Graab el Sahara ; by which name a bird is mentioned 

 by Shaw, but this had the bill and legs red ; called also the Red-legged Crow, and Crow of 

 the Desert.— See Shaw's Trav. in Barbary, p. 251.— probably this may be our Red-legged, 

 or the Hermit Species ? 



