10 CROW. 



food ; not unfrequently makes great havock of young game of all 

 kinds, and has also been known to peck out the eyes of young lambs. 

 This bird, like the Raven, is very tenacious of its own residence, not 

 suffering any bird to approach within a moderate distance without an 

 attack, and for the most part defeating the enemy. 



This species is found in many parts of the world, though not so 

 far spread as the Raven : is scarce in Russia, only in the northern 

 parts ; grows more numerous in Siberia, especially beyond the Lena, 

 where the Hooded Crow is not seen : pretty common about the Lake 

 Baikal ; but most of all plentiful about Astrachan ; where, in com- 

 pany with others of the Genus, they do immense damage to the 

 vine-yards, and oblige the owners to drive them off* with clappers,* 

 &c. ; not uncommon at Aleppo,f and may be noticed in drawings 

 from China and India ; not often seen in Prussia^ and very rare in 

 Sweden, § but in France and Germany as common as in England. 

 We hear of it at Madeira. || — Dampier met with it at New-Holland, 

 and New-Guinea;** and Dr. Forster at New-Caledonia. tf— On 

 the New Continent it is frequent about Hudson's Bay, where it is 

 called Hahaseu ; is more plentiful in-land, being rarely seen on the 

 coasts ; X+ n °t always in Canada in the winter, for according to Kalm, 

 it is not at Quebec at that season. §§ More of the manners need not 

 be mentioned, as the species is so generally known. |||| 



* However they may join the company of their congeners, as observed above, they cer- 

 tainly do not form themselves into flocks of their own species. 



f Russel Alep. p. 69. £ Klein. Ord. Av. p. 58. § Only seen once, Faun. Suec. 



|| Forster's Voy. p. 25. ** Damp. iv. 138. ft Vol. ii. 402. *+ Mr. Hutchins. 

 §§ Trav. iii. 206. 



11 1| A singular anecdote of this bird is well attested. In March 1783, a Crow was observed 

 to build a nest on the vane of the top of the Exchange at Newcastle, and the jnore remark- 

 able, as the spindle on which it was constructed, being fixed to the vane, moved with it, and 

 in course turned round to every point of the compass. A small copper-plate was engraved, 

 with a representation of the circumstance, of the size of a watch-paper, and so pleased were 

 the inhabitants with it, that so many were sold at sixpence each, as to produce the sum of 

 ten pounds. 



