TILE CROW, 
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CHAP. III. 
Of Birds of the Pie Order — The Raven — The Carrion 
Crow — The Rook — The Royston Crow— The Jackdaw 
—The Cornish Chough— The Hottentot Crow — The 
Bald Crow— The variegated and while-breasted Croze— 
The Magpie— The Jay — The Chinese , Peruvian, Ca- 
nada Siberian , and yellow-bellied Jays — The Nut- 
cracker — The Roller — The Hoopoe — The Promerops 
— The King-fisher — The Cuckoo — 7'Ae Wood- 
pecker— 77 te Oriole — 77ie Nuthatch— The Bee- 
Eater— The Wryneck— 77ie Creeper— 77/e Tou- 
can— 77;cMotmot— 77/c Horn bill— 77/e Rhinoceros, 
Helmet , and Pied Hornhills— The Parrot — 7 he 3fa- 
cozo, the Lory, the Parakeet, and Cockatoo — 7 he A s i 
—The Wattle Bird— The. Crackle— The Bird of 
Paradise— The King Bird of Paradise— The magni- 
ficent Bird of Paradise — 7 he Beef-Eater Ihe Cu- 
Racui — The Barbet — The Jacamar — lhe ioDY 
The Humming-Bird. 
The Order of Pies, 
the crow. 
Piie raven, the carrion-crow, and the rook, are bivcls so well 
known, that a long description would but obscure oui ideas 
°f them. The raven is the largest of the three, and distin- 
guished from the rest, not only by the size, but by his bill 
being somewhat more hooked than that oi the rest. As for 
l he carrion-crow and the rook, they so strongly resemble each 
ot ber, both in make and size, that they are not easily distin- 
guished asunder. The chief difference to be found between 
them lies in the bill of the rook ; which, by frequently being 
thrust into the ground to fetch out grubs and earth-worms, 
18 bare of feathers as far as the eyes, and appears of whitish 
colour. It differs also in the purple splendour or gloss oi 
>ts feathers which in the carrion-crow are of a more dirty 
black. Nor is it amiss to make these distinctions, as the rook 
bas but too frequently suffered for its similitude to the car- 
i ion-crow ; and thus an harmless bird, that feeds only up on 
‘usects and corn, has been destroyed for another that feeds 
u P°n carrion, and is often destructive among young P oul "7; 
Phe raven is a bird found in every region of the wot , 
strong and hardy, he is uninfluenced by the change o 10 
weather ; and when other birds seem numbed with cold, or 
