CHOUGH OR RED-LEGGED CROW. 257 
arched for the whole length ; tomia entire ; 
nostrils covered with thick, short, strong 
plumes, regularly rounded off at the extre- 
mity ; rictus bristled ; wings long ; quills 
irregularly graduating, fourth longest ; tail 
slightly rounded ; tarsi and feet strong and 
short; claws strong. F. graculus, leucop- 
terus. 
Europe, Asia, New Holland. 
The Chough or Red-legged Crow Fbe- 
gilus Graculus, Cuvier . — Corvus graculus, 
Linn. — Pyrrhocorax graculus, Temm. — Red- 
legged Crow, or Cornish Chough, of modern 
authors. — This very handsome bird is locally 
distributed, but is perhaps not so rare as has been 
generally accounted. In this country it only 
frequents sea-coasts, never venturing far inland, 
and in this respect seems to differ considerably 
from the birds on the Continent, where Alpine 
inland districts are in part inhabited by them. In 
Britain, the rocky coasts of Devon and Cornwall, 
various parts of Wales, and some of the adjacent 
isles, are southern localities ; in Scotland, St 
Abb’s Head on the eastern side, and the shores 
of Wigtonshire and Galloway on the western, are 
frequented ; and we learn that it reaches even the 
Hebrides. In Ireland, Mr Thompson writes, “ it 
frequents the sea-coast chiefly, and occurs in cer- 
tain localities, in the north, south, and east of Ire- 
land.” But that part where we have seen it most 
