100 ROOK 
was built of sticks, chiefly gorse from the brows above; 
the cup in its centre very neat, lined with wool, moss, 
leaves of luzula, and rags, with a bit of printed paper and 
an end of rope.’ 
Eggs are laid about the end of April. 
CORVUS CORONE, the black form (if it be not really 
distinct) of this Crow, has not hitherto been recorded from 
Man.’ Treating the grey bird as distinct, it is common and 
abundant in Ireland (where also the Black Crow is not 
found), and is resident in northern and western Scotland, 
and the Scottish islands, in all of which latter it abounds 
to the exclusion of the Black Crow. In Kirkcudbrightshire, 
where C. corone is resident, the Grey Crow is not common, 
and it is strictly an autumn and winter migrant, as in 
Cumberland and Lancashire, where also it is scarce. (Black 
Crows nest on the cliffs of Anglesea.) Vast numbers migrate 
into England from the Continent in autumn, but few or 
none of these reach Ireland or the Isle of Man. 
CORVUS FRUGILEGUS, Linn. ROOK. 
Manx, Craue feeagh (M. S. D., and Cr., who translates ‘Scald 
Crow’); Craue-feeagh (Kermode); Trogh, Troghan (Ker- 
mode). Perhaps the ‘C@raue’ in the first name is a corruption 
of English ‘Crow’; Mr. Kermode thinks that the ‘feeagh ’ 
here signifies ‘wild,’ but had the dictionary-makers believed 
it to be so they would doubtless have spelled it ‘fe/e.’ 
Craue-feeagh is rather a combination, natural enough during 
the struggle between the two languages, of the English and 
Manx names for the class of bird to which the Rook belongs. 
For Feeagh, see names of next species. 
At the time of Townley’s visit (1789) the Rook was a 
1 But the Messrs. Haddon, of Park Llewellyn, are both positive that they have 
seen it in their district. ‘We know it very well, though one has to be near it to 
