CROW. 9 



Mr. Levaillant found a nest of one in October, it was of a vast 

 size, composed of large branches of trees, lined within with soft 

 materials. The eggs, four in number, of a greenish colour, marked 

 with brown ; called at the Cape Ring-hals-kraai, or Ring-necked- 

 Crow. 



In the British Museum is a specimen twenty inches long, in which 

 all the back part of the neck is white, passing forward, and forming 

 a crescent before ; tail even at the end, consisting of twelve feathers. 



4— CARRION CROW. 



Corvus Corone, Ind.Om.i. 151. Lin.'i. 155. Gm. Lin. i. 365. Faun. Suec. No. 86; 



Scop: Ann. i. No. 36. Brun. No. 29. Muller. No. 87. Georgi. p. 165. Faun. 



Arag. p. 72. Frisch. t. 66. Bor. Nat. ii. 110. Sepp. Vog. iii. t. 115. Daud.'u. 



226. Hist. Prov. i. 486. Shaw's Zool. vii. 345. Amer. Orn. iv, pi. 35. f. 3. Tern. 



Man. d'Om. p. 67. Id. Ed. ii. p. 108. 

 Cornix, Raii. p. 39. A. 2. Will. p. 83. 1. 18. Bris. ii. p. 12. Id. 8vo.i. 157. Klein. 



Av. p. 58. 6 ? 

 Schwarze Krahe, Naturf. ix. s. 41. 

 La Corneille, Buf. iii. 45. pi. 3. PI. enl. 483. 

 Carrion Crow, Gen. Syn. i. 370. Id. Sup. 75. Id. Sup. ii. 108. Br. Zool. i. No. 75. 



pi. 34. Id. fol. p. 75. Id. 1812. 1. p. 281. pi. 35. Arct. Zool. ii. 135. Alb. iii. 



pi. 21. Hist. Selb. p. 97. Will. Eng. 122. pi. 18. Bewick, i. p. 68. Lewin 



Bi rds, i. pi. 34. Id. Eggs, pi. vi. f. ii. Walcot. Syn. i. pi. 33. Orn. Diet. Sf Sup. 



THE length of this species is eighteen inches ; breadth thirty-six ; 

 weight, twenty ounces. The bill black ; irides dusky ; the plumage 

 violet black, but less glossy than in the Raven ; tail nearly even at 

 the end ; the female has the colours less bright. The two sexes are 

 for the most part seen together, and the opinion is, that they remain 

 so during life. The nest is made on tall trees, chiefly in woods, and 

 the eggs five or six in number, similar to those of the Raven, but 

 smaller.* Like that bird, the Crow is fondest of carrion and animal 



* Weight fire drams ; that of the Raven between six and seven. 



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