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HOODED CROW^ 
it was the Honey Buzzard. They are said to be found in the open parts 
of Norway, Russia, and Siberia, near the woods, and to feed upon small 
lizards and caterpillars, both smooth and hairy ; all of which have been 
found in its stomach on dissection. 
This elegant bird is disting-uished from all its cong-eners, by the 
small round and closely set feathers that cover the space between the 
bill and eyes. This peculiarity has induced Cuvier to add it to his 
genus or division, Pernis. 
It builds its nest in lofty trees like the common buzzard, and lays 
four white eggs, spotted with reddish brown. Mr. White mentions one 
egg only being found in the nest, which contained the embryo young ; 
he describes it as smaller, and not so round as that of the buzzard, 
dotted at each end with small red spots, and surrounded in the middle 
with a broad bloody zone. 
HOODED CROW (^Corvus Cornix^ Linn^us.) 
Corvus cornix, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 156.5 Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 366. 5. — Tnd. Orn. 1. 
p. 153. 7. — Temm. 1. 109. — Cornix cinerea, Raii, Syn. p. 39. A. 4. — Will. p. 
88. t. 18. and 77. — Briss. 2. p. 19. 4. — La Corneille mantelee, Buff. 3. p. 61. 
t. 4. — RoystonCrow, Will. (Angl.) p. 124. 1. 18. 77. — Albin, 2. t. 23. — Hooded 
Crow, Br. Zool. 1. No. 77.— Ih. fol. p. 76. t. D. 1 Arct. Zool. 2. p. 251. D. 
Lath. Syn. 1. p. 374. 5.' — Ib. Sup. p. 77. — Leviih’s Br. Birds, 1. t. 36. — Wale. 
Syn. 1. 1. 35. — Don. Br. Birds, t. 117. — Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 5. — Flem. 87. 
Provincial, — Hoody. Dun Crow. Scare Crow. Bunting Crow. 
Grey-backed Crow. 
This species weighs about twenty-two ounces; length twenty-one 
inches; bill black, in size and shape like the carrion crow; irides dusky; 
the head, underside of the neck, the point of the breast, wings, and 
tail, are of a glossy bluish-black ; belly, back, scapulars, and upper side 
of the neck, are of a light ash-colour ; legs and claws black. 
The Hooded Crow visits the southern parts of this kingdom in 
October, and retires northward to breed in the beginning of April ; it is 
found in some parts of Scotland during the summer ; and we have re- 
ceived its eggs from Ireland, in some parts of which it continues the 
whole year. 
The nest and eggs are similar to those of the common crow. In 
England these birds are principally found near the sea-coast, where the 
various animal matter, thrown up by the tide, affords a constant supply 
of food. It is also seen in considerable abundance upon some of our 
downs, or in the open champaign parts, where it feeds on grain, worms, 
and carrion. Ten or a dozen are not unusually seen perched together 
in the neighbourhood of a dead sheep, patiently watching till the shep- 
herd’s dog has filled his paunch, and, retiring to his master’s cot, is 
slunk in deep repose. Like the last species, it attacks the eyes of 
