CROW, 



25 



15— RED-LEGGED CROW. 



Corvus graculus, Ind. Orn. i. 165. Lin. i. 158. Gm. Lin. i. 377. Faun. Arug 72. Daud. 



ii. 253. Bechst. Deutsch. ii. 447. Shaw's Zool. vii. 378. 

 Pyrrhocorax Coracias, Tent. Man. p. 72. Id. Ed. ii. p. 122. 

 Corvus docilis, Gm. It. iii. 385. t. 39. 

 Gracula Pyrrhocorax, Scop. i. 46. 



Upupa Pyrrhocorax, Hasselq. It. 238. 19. Ttf. Engl. 197. 

 Coracias, seu Pyrrhocorax, Raii. 40. A. 6. WiW. 86. t. 19. Bris. ii. p. 3. t. 1, f. 1. Id. 



8vo. i. 154. Shaw's Trav.lbl. Gerini, ii. t. 149. Klein. Ac. p. 60. 11. Buf. iii. 



1. ; pi. 1. P/. e«/. 255. 

 Cornish Chough, Alb. ii. pi. 24. Borl. Cornw. 243. pi. 24. Will. Engl. 126, pi. 19, 



Hayes, pi. 6. 

 Red-legged Crow, Lin.St/st.i. 401. Id. Slip. 82. Id. Sup. ii. 115. Br. Zoo/, i. pi. 35. 



Jd./o/. 83. t. L. * Jrf. 1812. 294. pi. 36. Bewick, i. pi. p. 77. Lewin. pi. 41. 



Id. Eggs. pi. vii. f. 4. Walcot, pi. 40. Orn. Die*. 



SIZE of a Jackdaw; length sixteen inches ; extent of wing two 

 feet nine inches; weight fourteen ounces. Bill two inches long, 

 much curved, and sharp at the point ; colour that of red sealing wax ; 

 hides grey, with an outer circle of red ; eyelids red ; plumage wholly 

 purplish black ; legs red;* the wings reach three-fourths on the tail. 



The female is smaller, and the bill somewhat shorter. — This is 

 called by some Cornish Daw, Cornish Kae, Killigrew, and Chauk ; 

 pretty common on some of our English coasts, particularly the western : 

 in Devonshire and Cornwall, in Wales and Scotland. We have also 

 received it from Dover Cliffs, where they breed, but said to have 

 arisen from a pair originally sent from the West ; found also to fre- 

 quent the South Downs about Beachy-Head and East-Bourn, and 

 there called the Red-billed Jackdaw, f Makes the nest in the clefts 



* Scopoli says, in autumn the feet in some are black — According to Bechstein, it is in 

 the spring that this colour in the feet is seen ; and others affirm, that in the first year the 

 bill and legs are black ; these seeming contradictions can only be reconciled by supposing 

 the describers to mean two different species, as in this kingdom, the young birds have the 

 bill and legs red the first year. f Lin. Trans, iv. p. 14. 



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