22 crow. 



12— RUSSIAN CROW. 



Corvus infaustus, Ind. Orn. i. 159. Lin. Faun. Suec. No. 93. Brun. p. 10. MuUer, 

 No. 93. Mus. Carls. Fasc. iv. t. 76. Georgi. 164 ? Tern. Man. d'Orn. p. 176. 

 Id. ed. ii. p. 116. 



Lanius infaustus, Lin. i. 138. Shaw's Zool. vii. 302. 



Geai orange, Levail. ois. de Parad. i. pi. 47. 



Corvus Russicus, G'we/ It. i. 50. t. 11. 



LENGTH nine inches or more. Bill black ; head dusky brown ; 

 chin and face whitish, mixed with ferruginous and ash-colour ; neck, 

 shoulders, back, and breast cinereous ; belly and thighs pale rufous ; 

 rump and vent ferruginous ; some of the wing coverts the same ; 

 others incline more to rufous ; quills dusky, the outer one shortest ; 

 tail the length of the body, cuneiform ; the two middle feathers dusky 

 ash, the others pale ferruginous, with the ends more or less dusky ; 

 legs black. 



Inhabits Sweden ; found also in Lapland ; common in the North 

 of Russia and Siberia, in all the woody parts ; but not in Kamts- 

 chatka ; is a bold bird, approaches the traveller while enjoying his 

 meal in the open air, that it may partake of the scraps. The figure 

 in the Carlsonian Museum seems pretty correct. 



A.— Corvus Sibiricus, Gm. Lin. i. 373. 

 Geay de Siberie, Buf. iii. 118. PI. enl. 608. 

 Siberian Jay, Gen. Syn. i. 390. 



Less than a Jay ; length ten inches. Bill dusky ; crown brown- 

 black, and somewhat crested ; upper part of the body and wings 

 cinereous, verging to brown on the back ; quills cinereous ; forehead 

 and sides, chin, and neck before, pale, with a tinge of blue on the 



