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chase : in this it seemed actuated by a desire to possess the fish, for if 

 the gull has time to swallow it, no resentment was offered. Apparently 

 the sight of the fish created a desire of possession, which ceased when 

 it had disappeared. If it got out, it never attempted to ramble ; but 

 walking direct to the house, would enter the first open door without 

 deference to any one, regardless even of a dog, and, in fact, trouble- 

 somely tame.* 



CORN CRAKE.— -A name for the Land Rail. 



CORN CRACKER.— A name for the Land Rail. 



CORNISH DAW.— A name for the Chough. 



CORN DRAKE.— A name for the Land Rail. 



CORNISH GANNET.— A name for the Skua. 



CORVID^ (Leach.)— Birds of the Crow kind. 



CORVORANT.— A name for the Cormorant. 



CORVUS (Linnaeus). — * Crow, a genus thus characterised. Bill 

 strong, curved like a pruning-knife, straight at the base, but bending 

 slightly towards the tip. Nostrils, at the base of the bill, oval and 

 open, covered by reflected bristly feathers. Wings pointed, the first 

 feather being much shorter than the second, and the third and fourth 

 being the longest in the wings. Legs and feet plated, with three toes 

 before and one behind. Toes divided. Shank longer than the middle 

 toe.* 



COULTERNEB (Fratercula arctica, Brisson.) 



* Fratercula Gesneri, Aldrov. Orn. — Alca arctica, Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 549. — Lath. 

 Ind. Orn. 2. p. 792. 3.— Anas arctica, Ray's Will. p. 325. — Fratercula, 

 Briss. 6. p. 81. 1. — Flem. p. 130. — Mormon Fratercula, Temm. 2. p. 

 934 — Le Macareux, Buff. 9. p. 358. 26.— Puffin, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. No. 

 232.*— Mont. Orn. Diet. 2.— Arct. Zool. 2. No. 427.— Will. (Angl.) p. 325. 

 —Albin, 2. t. 78. 79.— Edw. t. 358. f. 1.— Lath. Syn. 5. p. 314. 3.— Lewin's 

 Br. Birds, 6. t. 225.— Don. Br. Birds, 1. t. 8.— Wale. Syn. 1. t. 87.— Pult. 

 Cat. Dorset, p. 17. 



The weight of this species is between twelve and thirteen ounces ; 

 length exceeds twelve inches. The bill is of a very singular form ; it 

 is about an inch and a half deep at the base, much compressed sideways, 

 and arched, but ends in a point, where the upper mandible is a little 

 hooked: at the base of this mandible is an elevated rim, full of small 

 punctures of a light colour ; next to which is a space of bluish grey, 

 at the bottom of which the nostrils are lodged at the edge, which is a 

 long narrow slit ; from thence it is orange-coloured with four oblique 

 furrows ; the under mandible corresponds in colour, but has only three 

 furrows ; irides hazel, in some greyish ; orbits red ; above the eye is a 

 triangular callous protuberance, beneath an oblong one ; the top of the 

 head and whole upper parts are black, passing round the neck in a 



