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CORVIDiE. 
This species is sometimes, if not generally, infested with para- 
sitic insects (lice) to an extraordinary degree, so much so as in 
one instance to deter a friend from skinning one he had received, 
just after it was shot. On mentioning this to another amateur 
taxidermist, he remarked, that in skinning one of these birds, 
he became “ covered " with its parasites. According to my own 
observation, birds of prey, or species partly carnivorous, are more 
infested with lice than others ; and particularly with those belong- 
ing to the most active and stirring genera of their attractive tribe ! 
In Mr. Denny's Monographia Anoplurorum Britannise, much 
information will be found on this subject. 
THE GREY CROW. * 
Hooded Crow. 
Corvus cor nix, Linn. 
Is common in Ireland, and resident in all quarters of the 
island. 
In the north and east, it has come under my own observation at 
every period of the year, and is fully as numerous in summer as 
at any other time. At this season, too, I have remarked the bird 
as common in the west and south ; and my correspondents there 
agree in noticing it as a resident species. Sir. Wm. Jardine 
observes : — u So far as our information and observation have ex- 
tended, this species is stationary through the year in the northern 
parts of Scotland, while in the south, and in some parts of Eng- 
land, it is migratory."! The Rev. L. Jenyns, in a note to 
p. 143, of his edition of White's Selborne (1843), remarks, that 
this bird “ has very rarely been known to breed in England," and 
* In the north of Ireland, it is commonly called hy this, its most distinctive appel- 
lation : in some parts of the south. Scald Crow is the name in frequent use. In a 
foot-note to the starling, I have noticed the grey crow as called buddy in Perthshire, 
where I had been shooting. Hoddy, is applied by Mr. Macgillivray to the carrion 
crow (vol. i. p. 516, and vol. iii. p. 715), and given in the former volume as one of 
many of its names ; in the latter, the species is called simply <r hoddy or carrion crow.” 
f Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 233. 
