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DOWNY CROW. 



quents mountainous regions, feeding on berries, 

 and uttering a chattering note, very different from 

 that of any of the European Crows. 



Var. ? 



DOWNY CROW. 



This is considered as a distinct species bj 

 Monsr. Daudin in his Ornithology, who takes the 

 description from an individual brought from Porto- 

 rico and deposited in the Paris Museum. It re- 

 sembles the immediately preceding, but differs in 

 having a white down at the base of the feathers: 

 the exterior colour of the plumage is fine black. 

 Dam pier observes that the Crows in New Guinea 

 differ from ours in the colour of the feathers, the 

 outside parts of which are black, but the base 

 white. 



