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Wilson, Am. Orn. W, Plate XXXV, fig. 3; Aud. B. of Am. Plate 

 CLVI ; oct. ed. IV, Plate CCXXV. 



The Crow inhabits the entire extent of temperate North America, 

 and unlike the raven, does not apparently decrease in numbers on ac- 

 count of the partial destruction of the foi'est, or the progress of the 

 inclosure and cultivation of the country. 



Specimens from Oregon in the collection, are precisely similar to 

 those of the Eastern States. Dr. Pickering mentions that this bird 

 was observed in both Oregon and California. 



3. CoRvus ossiFRAGUs, Wilson. — The Fish Crow. 



Corvus ossi/ra(jits, WiLSON, Am. Orn. V, p. 27 (1812). 



Wilson, Am. Orn. V, Plate XXXVII, fig. 2; Aud. B.of Am. Plate 

 CXLVI ; oct. ed. IV, Plate CCXXVI. 



The Fish Crow, Mr. Peale states, was observed by the naturalists of 

 the Expedition, on the Columbia River, in Oregon, and in the Bay 

 of San Francisco, California. No specimen being in the collection, 

 nor having elsewhere ever seen a specimen pf this species from 

 Western America, we allude to it especially for the purpose of express- 

 ing a suspicion that the species of the Western coast may be the 

 smaller Mexican and West Indian bird recently described by Mr. 

 Gundlach, under the name of Corvus mlmitus, Journal of the Boston 

 Natural History Society, VI, p. 315 (1853). 



The bird alluded to, appears to be common in Mexico, and it may 

 not be improper here to state, is the same species which, according to 

 the Prince Bonaparte, is the true Corvus spermolegus, Vieillot. (Bona- 

 parte, in Notes Ornithologiques sur les collections rapportees en 1853, 

 par M. A. Delattre, en California, &c. p. 7.) 



4. Corvus coroneoides, Vigors and Horsfield. — The 

 Australian Raven. 



Corvus coroneoides, ViG. & HoRSF. Trans. Linn. Soc. London, XV, p. 2G1 (1826). 



