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The Rovfton Crovj. Cornlx Cinerea. 



Numb. XXIII. 



T T S Weight twenty two Ounces ; its Length from the Point of the Bill 

 -*' to the End of the Tail, was twenty two Inches ; Breadth when the 

 V/ings were extended three Foot and three Inches. 



The Bill from the Point to the Angles of the Mouth two Inches and 

 a half, ftrong, fmooth, black, but having a whitifh Tip; the upper 

 Chap fomewhat longer than the lower, and a little bowed or crooked ; 

 the Noftrils round covered with briftly Hairs ; the Tongue broad, black, 

 and a little cloven, and rough on the Sides 5 the Irides of the Eyes of 

 a cinereous hazel Colour. 



The Head, Wings , and Throat as far as the Breaft-Bone black, with 

 a certain blue Glofs ; the breaft. Belly, Back, and Neck cinereous or 

 grey, the Shafts of the Feathers being blackilh; the Feathers on the 

 Throat where the black and cinereous meet have their exteriour Sides 

 cinereous, and their interiour black j the Back is fomewhat of a darker 

 A Ill-Colour than the Belly. 



It hath in each Wing twenty Mafter-Feathers, of which the firft is 

 the fhorteft, the third, fourth, and fifth equal; from the fixth the 

 Shafts being produced above the Feathers end in fharp Points ; the Tail 

 confifts of twelve Feathers, the exteriour whereof were gradually fome- 

 thing fhorter than the inteiiour to the middlemoft, which were feven 

 Inches and a half long. 



The back Toe and Claw are large; the exteriour and interiour fore 

 Toes equal ; and their Claws reach as far as the Root of the Claw of 

 the middle Toe, the outmoft and middle Toe are joined at the Bottom 

 as in the Crow. 



The Liver is divided into Lobes ; the Stomach or Gizzard large, and 

 in it when difleded full of Wheat, Barley, and other Grain: They are 

 infefted vrith Lice and Ticks. 



In the Summer time [hith. Aldrovandus) it lives on high Mountains, 

 where it alfo breeds, in the Winter, compelled as is likely by the Cold, it 

 defcends into the Plains, on the Heaths about Newma?'ket^ Royjion, and 

 elfewhere in Ca7?ib?-idgeJ]m-e it is frequently feen in Winter Time: I 

 have likewife feen many of them about Hackney near London 



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