24 crow. 



It is said to resemble the Jay in manners, laying up store of 

 acorns and nuts, on the latter of which it most delights to feed, but 

 will eat insects of various kinds. Makes the nest in the holes of trees, 

 and, like the Woodpecker, enlarges them with the bill ; the eggs five 

 or six, pale yellow, marked with small black spots. 



According to Klein, there are two Varieties, a smaller and a 

 larger. Muller also mentions two, the one rufous, the other spotted 

 black and white ; and Mr. Bechstein saw a specimen wholly white. 

 M. Temminck forms a distinct Genus of this, of which it is the only 

 species. 



14— ALPINE CROW. 



Corvus Pyrrhocorax, Ind. Orn. i. 165. Lin. i. 158. Gm. Lin. i. 376. Bris. ii. 30. til. 



f. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 162. Shaw's Zoo!, vii. 380. Tern. Man. d' Orn. p. 71. Id. Ed. 



ii. p. 121. 

 Coracias, Gerin. ii. 1. 150, 151. 



Crave des Alpes, Daud. ii. 252. Neu. Schw. Abh. iii. s. 104. 

 Choucas des Alpes, Buf. iii. 76. t. 6. PI. enl. 531. 

 Alpine Crow, Gen. Syn. i. 381. 



SIZE of the Jackdaw ; length fifteen inches ; breadth two feet 

 seven inches. Bill like that of a Jackdaw, but rather longer, colour 

 yellow ; plumage wholly black ; tail even at the end, and reaching 

 but little beyond the wing when closed ; legs and claws black. * 



Inhabits the Alps ; has a sharp, disagreeable voice, lives on grain 

 and fruits, and does much damage to the harvest : the flesh accounted 

 good : makes the nest generally in crags and clefts of rocks, rarely 

 in trees ; and lays four white eggs, marked with dusky yellow spots. 



* Peyrouse observes, that the colour of the legs differs according to the age ; in some 

 black, in others orange, and in old birds deep crimson. 



