NUT-CRACKING CROW. 



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from habitual use, than to original formation. 

 The bill of the Rook, Mr. Latham observes, is, 

 when young, as completely covered with bristles 

 and feathers as that of the Crow. On the contrary, 

 the editor of Mr. Bewick's elegant publication 

 assures us that he has observed the bareness and 

 whiteness round the base of the bill in the Rook, 

 even in its youngest state. Monsr. Levaillant 

 considers this bird as a species of Arnpelis! 



NUT-CRACKING CROW. 



Corvus Caryocatactes. C. fuscus albo punctatus, alis caudaque 



nigris, rectricibus apice albis. 

 Brown Crow, speckled with white, with black wings and tail, 



the latter tipped with white. 

 Corvus Caryocatactes. Lin, Si/st. Nat, 

 Le Casse-noix. Buff^ ois, PI. Enl, 50. 

 The Nut- Cracker. Edw. pi, 240. 

 Nut-Cracker Crow. Lath, syn. 



Size of a Magpie. Native of the middle parts 

 of Europe, and most frequent in Germany: bill 

 and legs black: in its manners resembles the Jay, 

 and is said to breed in the hollows of trees: very 

 rarely seen in England, and then only as an acci- 

 dental straggler: admirably figured by Edwards, 

 whose representation is copied in the present 

 work. 



