BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
THE CARRION-CROW. Corvus corone, Linnaeus. 
Local names -Corbie; Corbie-Craw; Hoodie Craw ; 
Hoodie. 
« A hoggie* dead ! a hoggie dead ! a hoggie dead ! 
O where? O where ? O where ? 
Down i'e park ! down i'e park ! down i e park ! 
Is't far ? is't far ? is't far ? 
Come try ! come try 1 come t^^Y^^^^^^, ^^^^^^^ 
4 fairly common resident throughout the county, although much persecuted 
by game-preservers. 
The above Ayme, said to describe the caU of the Carrion- 
Jrow is here given on account of its antiquity rather than 
for its truthfulness to nature. . i 
Feeding on any carrion or ofial, as its name imphes, 
J cSn-Crow has been known to attack weakly sheep 
Ind lambs ; it is an inveterate stealer of the eggs of other 
teds ani on a grouse-moor it can ^^ M^l^rao.^ 
of harm John McDiarmid records how John iait, 
r sidtg at Craigshiel, parish of Kirkmichael, counted m 
1828 no fewer than ninety-six Grouse eggs w^ich the 
C ows had purloined from a neighbouring heather fidd 
and broken and sucked on a verdant knoll, t 
as 179TwiUiam Stewart notes that " The most destructive o 
:U ravenous animals to game and to sheep also, is th^-aU 
raven which in this part of the country [».e., Hutton 
ard Vrie] is entirely black, but is the same w.th the 
Lev or hooded crow of other parts of Scotland % 
^ The nest is usually placed high up on a tree from which a 
goodloofout may be kept ; but Mr. James Pollock teUs me 
* Lamb. 
t Sketches from Nature, 1830, pp. 51, 52. 
t Stat. Acct. Scot., Vol. XIII., p. 580. 
