CORVUS CORNIX, 
^ HOODED CROW. 
Generic Character. See Corvus Corax, 
SVNONYMS. 
Corvus Cornix. Lin. Syft. i. p. 156. 5. 
RoYSTON Crow. Alhins Birds y 2. tak 23. 
Hooded Crow. Br, ZooL 1. 77. Lath. Syn. x.p. 374, 
5. Ih. /up. p. 77. Mont. Orn, Di^f. 
Bewick's Br. Birds^ Ft. i. p. i02» 
X HE Hooded Crow is about twenty-two inches in 
length, and weighs nearly one pound and a half; bill two 
inches and a quarter long, furniflied with very ftrong vibriife ; 
legs fcaly. Colours alike in both fexes ; the female moftiy 
weighs two or three ounces more than the male. 
This fpecies is very generally found throughout Great - 
Britain, and is, we are informed by Pennant, the only genuine 
fpecies of Crow found in the Hebrides, Orkneys, and Shet^ 
lands;'* it makes its neft in the fame manner and with the 
fame kinds of materials as the common crow ; it lays fix eggs. 
Their principal food is carrion, which they will fcent out at 
a very great diftance, the moft putrid carcafe is devoured by 
them with avidity ; they often attack the eyes of young lambs 
and 
