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The Hooded Crow is the only genuine 
species of Crow to be met with either in 
the Orkney or Shetland Isles; the Rook 
and Carrion Crow not being found there. 
The Rev. G. Low in his natural history 
of those Islands, informs us that they are 
very numerous there through the whole 
year; and in the breeding season are very 
destructive to chickens. He likewise says 
that "they are more familiar than the 
Corby, (the Orkney name for the Raven), 
and continue about the houses, till the 
calls of love draw them out with the rest 
of the feathered tribe to their summer 
retreats. " Its nest is composed of sticks, 
placed in the hollow of a rock, (trees we 
have none fit), and lined with softer ma- 
terials, such as wool, pieces of cloth, and 
in a word, every thing it can pick up. It 
lays from four to six eggs, which are 
green, spotted with black as those of the 
other species of the Crow kind mostly are." 
In those Islands they meet in the spring 
in vast flocks, and after flying about in this 
manner for a few days, separate into pairs, 
and betake themselves to the mountains. 
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