NUTCRACKER. 
The Nutcracker, or Corvus Caryocata6les 
of Linnaeus, was unknown to the Greeks,, 
though it has received the Greek nam-e K^fua- 
KcL\fLiC\i]i, from Ma^vcty a Nut, andjcjsyj'cy, to kill,, 
or destroy, in Latin, it is called Nucifraga,, 
or Nutbreaker ; Ossifragus,. or Stonebrcakcr :. 
and, by some, Turda SaKatilis, or the Stone 
Thrush ;; Pica Abietum Guttata, or the 
Speckled Pine Magpye. The Turks call it; 
Gurga;. the Russians, Kostohryz;. the Pole&^ 
Klesk,. Grabulusk ; the Germans, Nussbret- 
scher, or Nutbreaker, Nuskraelie, or Nut- 
Crow,, Tannen-Hcyer, or Fir-Jay, Stein- 
Heyer,. or Stone-Jay,. Wald-Starl, or Wood- 
Stare, and Turkischer Holst-Schreyer, or ihe 
Turkish Forest- Brawler and the French, Pie 
Grivelee.. Aldrovandus names it Merula Sax- 
atllis and Willughby calls it the C.aryocatac-- 
tes of Gesner and 'I'urncr , but, as Edwards ob- 
serves, Gesner has added the uame Nr.ciha^ij,- 
jii his Nomcnclator dc Avibiis. 
Biiffon,. who calls it the Casse NoIm, or 
Cra^ckcs 
