HOtTENTOT CROW. 



and legs black: the claws very strong and hooked. 

 " It is," says Mr. Pennant, " a docile and loqua- 

 cious bird: breeds in steeples, old castles, and in 

 high rocks, laying five or six eggs: sometimes in 

 holJow trees near a rookery, joining those birds in 

 their foraging parties. In some parts of Hamp- 

 shire they are known to build in rabbet-holes: 

 they also build in the interstices between the up- 

 right and transome stones of Stone-Henge: their 

 eggs are five or six in number, smaller, paler, and 

 less spotted than those of the Crow." The varie- 

 ties recorded of this species are the Collared Jack- 

 daw, in which the neck is encircled with white: the 

 White Jackdaw, itt which the whole bird is white, 

 with a yellow bill : the Black Jackdaw, entirely of 

 a glossy black, with the eyes edged by small white 

 specks: the Black Jackdaw with red bill and legs: 

 the Black Jackdaw with white wings; and lastly, 

 the Buff-coloured Jackdaw with whitish bill. 



HOTTENTOT CROW. 



Corvus Hottentottus. C. virescenti-ater, cauda oequali ^ mystaci- 



bus longissimis, Lin, Syst, Nat. 

 Greenish- black Crow, with even tail, and very long whiskers. 

 Hottentot Crow. Lath. syn. 

 Choucas moustache. Buff. ois. PL Enl. 226, 



Size of a Blackbird: feathers about the nostrils 

 resembling black velvet: bill and legs black: on 

 each side the bill three very long black hairs: tail 

 of moderate length, and nearly even at the tip. 



