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manner its Wings and Neck : Its Feet red. Thefe kinds of Geeje are very rarely feen 

 in the Ferroyer Jflands, nor do they breed there. Whence they come, and whither 

 they go no man knows. But the Inhabitants have a fuperftitious conceit, grounded 

 upon long experience, that when they do appear they portend a change of Magiftracy 

 or Government. Befide thefe here is alfa plenty of common wild Geeje. 



Geftters Wood-Crow. Aldrov. lib. 19. cap. 5 7. 



OUr Wood-crow is of the bignefs of a Hen, black all the body over, if you behold 

 it at a diftance. But if you view it near hand, efpecially in the Sun, the black 

 feems to be mingled with green. Its Feet are almoft like a Hens, but longer : Its Toes 

 divided : Its Tail not long. It hath a Creft hanging down backwards from the Head, 

 which I know not whether it be in all Birds of this fort, and always. Its Bill is red, 

 long, and fit to thruftinto the narrow chinks and holes of the Earth, Trees,Wal!s,and 

 Rocks, to fetch out Grubs, and Infers lurking there, upon which it feeds. Its Legs 

 are long, and of a dark red. I hear that it feeds upon Gralhoppers, Crickets, little 

 Fifties, and Frogs. It build* for the moft part in the high Walls of demolifned or 

 ruinous Towers,which are common in the mountainous parts of Switzerland. In the 

 ftomach of one difTected, befides other Infe&s I fometimes found very many of thofe 

 which eat the roots of corn,eipecially Millet 5 the French call them Curtillas,om Coun- 

 trimen [the Germans! Tuaren, from the fite of their Feet,as I conjecture. They eat alfo 

 thofe Grubs of which the May-flies are bred. They flie very high : They lay two or 

 three Eggs. The firft of all ( as far as I know) fly away about the beginning of June, 

 if I be not miftaken. Their Young taken out of the Ncft before they can fly may 

 eafily be fed, and made fo tame, as to fly out into the fields and return of their own 

 accord. The young ones are commended for good meat, and counted a dainty : 

 Their fiefh is fweet, and their bones tender. Thofe that take them but of the Nefts 

 are wont to leave one in each, that they may the more "willingly return the following 

 year. They are called by our Country-men, Wald-rapp, that is Wood-Crows, becaufe 

 they are wont to live in woody, mountainous, and defert places : Where they build 

 in Rocks, or old forfaken Towers : Wherefore alfo they are called Steinrapp, and 

 elfewhere £ in Bavaria and Stiria ~\ Claujhrapp, from the Rocks, of Crags, and ftraits 

 between Mountains, which the Germans call Claufen, that is, enclofed places, wherein 

 they build their Nefts. 



Mr. WiUughby fufpe&s this Bird to be no other than the Coracias or Pyrrhocorax : 

 But if it be rightly defcribed its bignefs and the creft on its head forbid it. 



