
144 RAVEN. 
hair, as reported. When opened, this bird smells strongly of 
musk. 
Mr Abbot informs me that the carrion crow builds its nest 
in the large trees of the low wet swamps, to which places they 
retire every evening to roost. “They frequent,’ says he, - 
“that part of the town of Savannah where the hog-butchers 
reside, and walk about the streets in great numbers, like 
domestic fowls. It is diverting to see, when the entrails and 
offals of the hogs are thrown to them, with what greediness 
they scramble for the food, seizing upon it, and pulling one 
against another, until the strongest prevails. The turkey 
buzzard is accused of killing young lambs and pigs by picking 
out their eyes; but I believe that the carrion crow is not 
cuilty of the like practices. The two species do not asso- 
ciate.” 
RAVEN. (Corvus coraz.) 
PLATE LXXV.—Fie. 3. 
Gmel. Syst. i. p. 864.—Ind. Orn. p. 150.—Le Corbeau, Briss. ii. p. 8, et var.— 
Buff. Ois. iti. p. 13.—Pl. enl. 495.—Temm. Man. @Orn. p. 107.—Raven, 
Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 367.—Id. Supp. p. 74.—Penn. Brit. Zool. No. 74.— 
Arct. Zool. No. 134.—Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 341.—Bewick, i. p. 100.—Low, 
Fauna Orcadensis, p. 45.—Peale’s Museum, No. 175. 
CORVUS CORAX.—Liny2vs. 
Corvus corax, Bonap. Synop. p. 56.—Flem. Br. Anim. p. 87.—Raven, Mont. Orn. 
Dict. and Supp. p. 67.—Selby, Illust. Br. Orn. pl. 27. 
A KNOWLEDGE of this celebrated bird has been handed 
down to us from the earliest ages; and its history is almost 
coeval with that of man, In the best and most ancient of all 
books, we learn that, at the end of forty days after the great 
flood had covered the earth, Noah, wishing to ascertain whether 
or no the waters had abated, sent forth a raven, which did not 
return into the ark.* This is the first notice that is taken of 
this species. Though the raven was declared unclean by the 
law of Moses, yet we are informed that when the prophet 
* Genesis vill. 7. 
