CORVUS CORNIX. 



HOODED CROW. 



Generic Character. See Corvus Corax. 

 Synonyms. 



Corvus Cornix. Lin. Syfl 1. p. 156. 5. 

 Roys ton Crow. Alb ins Birds, 2. tab. 23. 

 Hooded Crow. Br. Zoo!. 1. 77. Lath. Syn. 1. p. 374. 



5. Ib. /up. p. 77. Mont. Orn. Dicl. 



Bewick's Br. Birds, Pt. 1. p. 102. 



J. HE Hooded Crow is about twenty-two inches in 

 length, and weighs nearly one pound and a half; bill two 

 inchss and a quarter long, furnifhed with very ftrong vibriflse ; 

 legs fcaly. Colours alike in both fexes ; the female moftly 

 weighs two or three ounces more than the male. 



This fpecies is very generally found throughout Great- 

 Britain, and is, we are informed by Pennant, " the only genuine 

 fpecies of Crow found in the Hebrides, Orkneys, and Shet- 

 lands ; " it makes its neft in the fame manner and with the 

 'fame kinds of materials as the common crow ; it lays fix eggs. 



Their principal food is carrion, which they will fcent out at 

 a very great diftance, the mod putrid carcafe is devoured by 

 them with avidity ; they often attack the eyes of young lambs 



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