ALPINE CROW. 



Corvus PyrrhoCorax. C. niger, rostro suhcurmto luteo, pedibus 

 nigris. 



Black Crow, with somewhat curved lutequs bill, and black 

 legs. 



Corvus Pyrrhoeorax. C. nigricansy rostro luteo, pedibus nigris, 



Lin, Syst. Nat. 

 Le Choucas des Alpes. Bipff^, ois. Pi, Enl, 531. 

 Alpine Grow. Lath, syn. 



Size of a Jackdaw: length fifteen inches: colour 

 black, with the bill yellow, and the legs often, but 

 not always, black : the bill is far shorter and less 

 curved than that of the immediately preceding 

 i^pecies or Cornish Chough, with which this bird 

 seems to have been sometimes confounded. It is 

 an inhabitant of the Alps, where it h said to live 

 principally on grain, and to do considerable 

 damage to the harvest. In voice and genera! 

 manners it seems to resemble the preceding. 



SIX-SHAFTED CROW. 



Corvus sexsetaceus. Corvus cristatus niger, rostra ftano, eapife 



utrinque scapis tribus longissimis nudis, ^ 

 Black crested Crow, with yellow bill, and three very long 



naked shafts on each side the head. 

 Le Sicrin. Lemill, ois. 



This, if a genuine species, is of the size and 

 colour of the Alpine Crow, but has the head far- 



