CROW. 11 



A. — Corvus clericus, Ind. Orn. i. 152. 4. /3. Gm. Lin. i. 365. Muse. Carls, fasc. i. t. 2. 



This chiefly differs from the common one, in having the base of 

 the bill ash-coloured, the chin white, and the black in some parts 

 more inclined to dusky. 



Ray, in his Letters, p. 108, mentions one wholly white. 



5- ROOK. 



Conrus Frugilegus, Ind. Orn. i. 152. Lin. i. 156: Faun. Suec. No. 85. It. Oel. 67. 



Gm. Lin. i. 366. Kram. 333. 2. Bor. Nat. ii. 105. Raii. p. 83. A. 3. Will. 



84. 1. 18. Frisch. t. 64. Gerini, ii. 35. 1. 143. 145. Bris. ii. 16. Id. 8vo. i. 158. 



Klein. Ao. p. 59. Id. Stem. p. 10. t. 10. f. 3. a. b. Id. Ov. t. 8. f. 10. Baud. 



ii. 229. Sepp. Voy. iii. t. 103. Shaw's Zool. vii. 347. Tern. Man. d'Orn. p. 69. 



Jtf. £c7. ii. p. 110. 

 Saatkrahe, Naturf. ix. s. 41. 



Le Freux, on la Frayonne, Buf. iii. 55. PI. enl. 484. 

 Corneille du Cap, Levail Ois. ii. p. 11. No. 52. 

 Rook, Gen. Syn. i. 372. Id. Sup. 76. itf. Sup. ii. 109. Bart. Trav. 286. Br. Zool. 



i. pi. 34. Id. 1812, 282. ^4rcf. ZooZ. ii. p. 250. A. Alb. ii. pi. 23. TFztt. £ng. 



123. Bewick. Birds, pi. p. 71. Lewin, i. pi. 35. 7rf. -Egg's pi. vi. f. 3. Wale. 



Birds i. pi. 34. Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. 



THIS and the Crow are not easily distinguished while young, 

 though the former is somewhat bigger, but the Rook, when at mature 

 age, appears bare about the nostrils, and root of the bill, arising from 

 the latter being thrust into the earth after worms and other insects, 

 which the Crow never does, and therefore retains the bristles over the 

 nostrils as long as it lives. In the Rook too, the tail feathers are 

 more rounded at the end. The Rook feeds also on grains of all 

 sorts, hence is injurious to the husbandman, and would be more so, 

 did it not at the same time destroy vast quantities of the larvae of the 

 Chafer Beetles,* which in some seasons ruin whole crops of corn, 

 by feeding on the roots. 



* Scarabeevs Melolontha, Sf Solstitialis.—Lin. 

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