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but by the appetite for earnage ; for it can subsist on 
fruits, seed ot all kinds, and indeed may be considered 
as an omnivorous animal.” This is mere fable, and of 
a piece n-ith many other absurdities of the same romau- 
cinw author. 
This species is found almost all over the habitable 
globe. We trace it in the north from Norway to Green- 
land, and hear of it in Kamtschatka. It is common 
every ndiere in Russia and Siberia, e.xcept within the 
Arctic circle;* and all through Europe. Kolbcn 
enumerates the raven among the birds of the Cape of 
Good Hope;-j- De Grandpre re|)reseuts it as numeroin* 
in Bengal, whert; they arc said to be protected for their 
iisetulness ; f and the iiafortunate La Rerouse .saw them 
at Baie dc Castries, on the east coast of Tartary ; like- 
wise at Port de.s Francois, ,58“ 87' north latitude, and 
139° oO' we.st longitude; and at Monterey Ba}-, North 
California. (J The English cirenmnavigators met with 
them at Nootka Sound ; || and at the Sandwich IslaudSj 
two being seen in (he village of Kakooa ; also at 
O whyhee, and supposed to he adored there, as they were 
called Eatooas. H Our intrepid American travellers) 
under the command of Lends and Clark, shortly after 
they embai'ked on the Columbia river, saw abundance 
of ravens, which n'cre attracted thither by the immense 
ijuantity of dead .salmon ndiich lined the shores.** 
They are found at all seasons at Hudson’s Bay;ff are 
frequent in Mexico and it is more than prUabR 
that they inhabit the whole continent of America. 
The raven mcasure.s, from the tip of the bill to the 
end of the tail, twenty-six inches, and is four feet id 
e.xteut ; the bill is large and strong, of a shining black) 
notched near the tip, and three inches long ; the ceta- 
ceous feathers which cover the nostrils extend half il® 
* Latham. ^ Afudley’s Kolbon, vol. ii, p. 13<5* 
i Voy. in the Indian Ocean, n. l48. 
§ Voy. par I. F. G. De la Peronse, ii, p. 129. 20.3. 443. 
Cook’s last voy. ii, p. 236. Am. ed. 
t Idem, hi, p. 329. ** Gass’s Journal, p. 
ff Charlevoix. Kalm. Flearne’s Journey. H FernandeZ' 
