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chase : in this it seemed actuated by a desire to possess the fish, for if 
the gull has time to swallow it, no resentment was offered. Apparently 
the sight of the fish created a desire of possession, which ceased when 
it had disappeared. If it g‘ot out, it never attempted to ramble ; but 
walking- direct to the house, would enter the first open door without 
deference to any one, regardless even of a dog, and, in fact, trouhle- 
somely tame. * 
CORN CRAKE. — A name for the Land Rail. 
CORN CRACKER. — A name for the Land Rail. 
CORNISH DAW. — A name for the Chough. 
CORN DRAKE. — A name for the Land Rail. 
CORNISH GANNET. — A name for the Skua. 
CORVIDS (Leach.) — Birds of the Crow kind. 
COR VO RANT. — A name for the Cormorant. 
CORVUS (Linn^us). — * Crow, a genus thus characterised. Bill 
strong, curved like a pruning-knife, straight at the base, hut bending 
slightly towards the tip. Nostrils, at the base of the bill, oval and 
open, covered by reflected bristly feathers. Wings pointed, the first 
feather being much shorter than the second, and the third and fourth 
being the longest in the wings. Legs and feet plated, with three toes 
before and one behind. Toes divided. Shank longer than the middle 
toe. * 
COULTERNEB {Fratercula arctica, Brisson.) 
*Fratercula Gesneri, Aldrov. Orn. — Alca arctica, Gme/. Syst. 2. p. 549. — Lath, 
Ind. Orn. 2. p. 792. 3. — Anas arctica, Ray’s Will. p. 325. — Fratercula, 
Briss. 6. p. 81. 1. — Flem. p. 130. — Mormon Fratercula, Temm. 2. p. 
934. — Le Macareux, Buff. 9. p. 358. 26. — Puffin, I'enn. Br. Zool. 2. No. 
232.*— Mont. Orn. Diet. 2.— Arct. Zool. 2. No. 427.— Will. (Angl.) p. 325. 
— Alhhi, 2. t. 78. 79. — Edw. t. 358. f. 1. — Lat/i, Syn. 5. p. 314. 3. — Lewin’s 
Br. Birds, 6. t. 225. — Don. Br. Birds, 1. t. 8. — Wale. Syn, 1. t. 87. — Pult, 
Cat. Dorset, p. 17. 
The weight of this species is between twelve and thirteen ounces ; 
length exceeds twelve inches. The bill is of a very singular form ; it 
is about an inch and a half deep at the base, much compressed sideways, 
and arched, but ends in a point, where the upper mandible is a little 
hooked: at the base of this mandible is an elevated rim, full of small 
punctures of a light colour ; next to which is a space of bluish grey, 
at the bottom of which the nostrils are lodged at the edge, which is a 
long narrow slit ; from thence it is orange-coloured with four oblique 
furrows ; the under mandible corresponds in colour, but has only three 
furrows ; irides hazel, in some greyish ; orbits red ; above the eye is a 
triangular callous protuberance, beneath an oblong one ; the top of the 
head and whole upper parts are black, passing round the neck in a 
