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The Cornifli Chough, Coracias jeu Pyrrhocorax. 



Numb. XXIV. 



IT weighed thirteen Ounces ; the Length from the Point of the Bill 

 to the End of the Tail feventeen Inches, the Breadth, when the 

 Wings were extended, was thirty three Inches and a half 



It is like the Jack-Daw but fomewhat bigger ; The Bill is long, red, 

 fharp, and a little bowed or crooked ; the upper Mandible being fome- 

 thing longer than the lower j The Noftrils round ; the Tongue broad, 

 thin, and a little c Wen, fhorter than the Bill; the Sides of the FiiTures 

 of the Palate, and Wind Pipe, and of the Root of the Tongue, are 

 rough, and as it were hairy; Feathers reflected downwards cover the 

 Noftrils ; the Feet and Legs are like thofe of the yack-Daws^ but of a 

 red Colour; The Plumage of the whole Body is all over black. 



The Number of prime Feathers in each Wing is twenty, of which 

 the firft is fhorter than the fecond, that than the third, the third 

 than the fourth , which is the longeft of all, being by Meafure ten 

 Inches and a half; the Wings complicated extend as far as the Tail; 

 the Tail Feathers are in Number twelve, all equal, or if any Difference 

 be, the middle a little the longer, as in the reft of this Kind, being by 

 Meafure five Inches and a quarter. 



The Liver was divided into two Lobes, of which the left was the 

 lefs; the Spleen long, foft, and round.; the Stomach flefhy, and full 

 of Infeds. 



It frequents Rocks; old Caftles, and Churches by the Sea-Side, it is 

 found not only in Cornwal, but alfo in JFaksy and all along the Weftern- 

 Coafts of England^ about the Cliffs and Rocks near the Sea: Its Voice 

 is like that of the common Jack-Daw, but more hoarfe. 



It is of great Ufe in Gardens, for to deftroy the Infeds, Wormsj ^c. 



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