96 HOODED CROW 
plentiful in Cumberland, and in Lancashire well distributed, 
though not numerous. It breeds in Orkney, but not, so 
far, in Shetland or the Outer Hebrides (except very recently 
at Stornoway). 
CORVUS CORNIX, Linn. HOODED CROW, 
GreyBack. Manx, Fannag, Trogh, Troghan (M.S. D.); Fannag 
(Cr.). (Cf. Se. Gaelic, Meannag ; Irish, Feannog, Fionnog.) 
Mitchell gives ‘ Manx-Crow’ as a Lancashire name, 
This bird is doubtless the ‘Scar Crowe,’ which by the law 
of 1687 is proscribed with others as a ‘ravinous creature,’ 
under a reward in the case of this species of a penny 
per head, but Dr. Leigh (1700) is, as far as I am aware, the 
first ornithological writer who has noticed it as a Manx 
bird. In his Natural History of Lancashire, etc. (pp. 158-9), 
he says of the ‘Sea-Crow,’ after a quaint description of its 
habits: ‘ These fowl are said to breed in the Isle of Man, but 
are not used as food.’* 
Townley (1791) remarks that the ‘Pied Crow’ appears 
in great flocks along the Manx shores, and that there is 
a ‘strong colony’ among the rocks of Douglas Head. 
Feltham (1798) states: ‘ An Irish Crow of a grey or lead 
colour is found, though the true English Crow is scarce. 
Mr. Townley mentions a Pied Crow, which preys on small 
crabs and marine delicacies.’ This writer seems to have 
mistakenly imagined that Townley’s ‘Pied’ Crow was 
different from his own ‘Grey’ Crow. 
In 1865 A. G. More states: ‘Mr. J. F. Crellin reports 
it as breeding annually in the Isle of Man.’ This fact 
has obtained a somewhat grudging recognition, Yarrell’s 
i Mitchell’s Birds of Lancashire, 2nd ed., p. 91. 
