GREY OR HOODED CROW. 



CORVUS CORN IX, Linn. 



Corvus comix, Linn. S. N. i. p. 156 (1766) ; Naum. ii. p. 65 ; 

 Macff. i. p. 529 ; Hewilson, i. p. 321 ; Yarr. ed. 4, ii. 

 p. 275 ; Dresser, iv. p. 543. 



Corbeau mantele, Cornnlle mantelet:, French ; Nebelrabe, 

 German. 



I must refer my readers to my remarks upon the 

 Black, or Carrion Crow, for my principal reason for 

 treating of the present bird as at all events presenting 

 one very important difference from that species besides 

 that of plumage ; and although I am fully disposed to 

 bow to the opinion of my friend Professor Alfred Newton 

 and other distinguished ornithologists, I feel sure that I 

 shall not be blamed by the majority of my subscribers 

 for the few following notes relating to this form. The 

 most curious part of its history is its capricious (if I 

 may be allowed the term) distribution. It breeds in all 

 I)ai ts of Ireland and throughout Scotland and its islands, 

 very rarely in England, abundantly throughout Scandi- 

 navia, sparsely in Western or Central Germany, very 

 seldom, if ever, in France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, 

 Spain, and the Balearic Islands. On the other hand, ii 



