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CORVUS CORQNE. 
CARRION CROW. 
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Entirely black, with a violet-blue gloss ; 
tail rounded, feathers pointed at the ends. 
Corvus Corone, Lin. Gme. 
La Corneille, Buffon. 
Carrion Crow, Pin. Lath. Mont. Bew. 
Shaw, 
PROVINCIAL. 
GOR-CROW, MINDEN-CROW, BLACK- 
NEBBED CROW. 
The Carrioi\ Crow is similar in its habits, 
colour, and external appearance, to the 
Raven, but much less in size, measuring 
about eighteen inches in length, and two 
feet two inches in the expansion of its 
wings. 
The female may be distinguished from 
the male by its plumage, which is of in- 
ferior lustre. 
These birds live together in pairs, and 
•pend the greater part of the summer in 
