38^ HERMIT CROW. 



colour to that of the Cornish Chough, resembhng 

 red sealing-wax: legs dusky; claws black. I do 

 not find this bird repeated in the Index Ornitho- 

 logicus of our incomparable ornithologist. 



PERMIT CROW. 



Corvus Eremita. C. mgro urescens, ppcipite subcristato, rostra 



pedibiisque rubris. 

 Greenish-black Crow, with subcristated hind-head^ and red 



bill and legs. 



Corvus Eremita. C. virescens, capite Jiavescenie, occipite sub" 



cristato, rostro pedibusque rubris. Lin. Si/st. Nat. 

 Corvus sylvaticus. Gesner. 

 Hermit Crow. Lath, syn. 



This species, which seems to be still very im- 

 perfectly known, is described by Aldrovandus, 

 from Gesner, and from him thus detailed by 

 Willughby. " Our Wood-Crow is of the bigness 

 of a Hen, black all the body over, if you behold 

 it at a distance ; but if you view it near at hand, 

 especially in the sun, the black seepfis to be mingled 

 with green. Its feet are atmost like a hen*s but 

 longer: its toes diyided: its tail not long. It hath 

 a crest hanging down backwards from the head, 

 which I know not whether it be in all birds of this 

 sort, and always. Its bill is red, long, and fit to 

 thrust into the narrow chinks and holes of the 

 earth, trees, walls, and rocks, to fetch out grubs 

 and insects lurking there, upon which it feeds. 

 Its legs are long, and of a dark red. I hear that 



