58 crow. 



as Mr. Abbot mentions a Crow seventeen inches long, thirty-one 

 inches and a half broad ; the bill one inch and three-quarters long ; 

 and observes, that the wings reach within one inch of the end of the 

 tail. He adds, that it makes great havock in the fields, by pulling up 

 the corn and maize, when they first spring from the ground, some- 

 times in flocks, destroying the green or roasting ears. It also sucks 

 birds eggs, and those of the great Land Tortoise, called Gopher, which 

 are laid in the earth, at the entrance of their dens ; is certainly distinct 

 from the Carrion Crow, as Dam pier* talks of that, and the Chattering 

 Crow,t as two distinct species ; both are said to be called, at Brazil, 

 Mackeraw. 



60— DOWNY CROW. 



Corvus leucognaphalus, Daud. ii. 231. Damp. Voy. p. 81. 



SIZE and shape of the Chattering Crow, and the plumage as in 

 that bird, of a full deep black, and furnished with fine white down 

 at the base of the feathers ; tail rounded, and reaching but little 

 beyond the wings when closed. 



Inhabits Porto Rico. A specimen of one is in the Museum at 

 Paris; it is probably allied to, if not the same as, the last described. 



61— FISH CROW. 



Corvus ossifragus, Fish Crow, Amer. Orn. v. p. 27. pi. 37. f. 2. 



THIS is sixteen inches long, and thirty-three in extent of wing ; 

 the upper mandible notched near the tip, and the edges of both 



* Voy. 3. p. 73. f The Ani is also called the Chattering Crow. 



