crow. 23 



sides of the head, and a shade of buff on the breast ; the breast itself, 

 and the under part of the body, and rump, ferruginous orange ; the 

 two middle tail feathers cinereous, the others orange; legs ash-colour. 

 Inhabits Siberia, and is no doubt a variety of the other. 



13— NUTCRACKER. 



Corvus Caryocatactes, Ind. Om. i. 164. Lin. i. 159. Faun. Suec. No. 91. Gm. Lin. i. 



370. Scop. An.\. No. 40. Ran. p. 42. Will. 90. t. 20. Bran. No. 34. Muller, 



No. 91. Georgi, 165. Kram. 334. Sepp.Vog. t. 3. Gerin. ii. p. 163. Borotvsk. 



ii. 108. Spaloicsk. ii. t. 12. Daud. ii. 251. pi. 17. Bechst. Deutsch. ii. 457. Skaw's 



Zool. vii. 353. t. 43. 

 Nucifraga, Bris. ii. 59. t. 5. f. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 171; Klein. An. 61. Id. Stem. p. 12. f. 



2. a. b. Frisch. t. 56. Schcef. el. t. 49. Tern. Man. p. 74. Id. Ed. ii. p. 118. 

 Casse noix, Buf. iii. 122. t. 9. P/. en?. 50. 



Nushraehe, Nusshaeher, Schr. Nat. 67. Gunt. Nest. U. Ey. 38. Naturf. ix. s. 44. 

 Nutcracker, Gen. Syn. i. 400. Jd. Sup. 82. JFi7/. £ng. 132. pi. 20. Br. Zool. ii. 



App. pi. 3. Id. 1812. 298. pi. 37. Arct. Zool. 252. D. Edw. pi. 240. Beivick, 



i. pi. 79. Leii-in, pi. 40. Walcot, pi. 38. Orn. Diet. Sj- Supp. 



SIZE of a Magpie ; length thirteen inches. Bill two inches 

 long, black ; irides hazel ; nostrils well covered with feathers, edged 

 with brown ; general colour of the plumage rusty brown ; crown and 

 nape inclining to dusky; most of the feathers marked with triangular 

 white spots ; largest on the under parts ; vent white ; quills and tail 

 black, the latter tipped with white ; legs black. 



This is very rare in respect to England, not having been met with 

 more than three times to our knowledge ; is more common on the 

 Continent, but no where so plentiful as in Germany ; sometimes 

 comes in vast flocks into France, especially Burgundy ; frequents the 

 mountainous parts of Sweden and Denmark ; met with as high as 

 Sondmor : common in the Pine Forests of Russia and Siberia, and 

 all over Kamtschatka ; now and then seen in America, but not near 

 the sea coast. 



