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allen’s naturalists library. 
the true choughs, genus graculus 
Graculus, Koch, Syst. Baier, Zool, p. 9r ( l8l6) . 
^ype, G. graculus (Linn.). 
geJu h s e :- ll0Wi " g SpeCi6S is the on ‘y representative of this 
the red-billed chough, graculus graculus. 
Corvus graculus, Linn., S. N i n Te s/ T 
■Fregilus graculus, Macg Br B ’ i J \ 
fyrrtwcorax graculus, Dresser," B Eur iv p 7 4 „ n1 
%• i (1875); Newt ed V-,rr ’ P ' 437, P 1 ’ 25I > 
B - O. U. List Br. B. p 66 OSSA- “s h (lS78) ’ 
i., p. C78('rS8,\. c„ ?’ .I 1 * 8 - 5 ), Seeb., Hist. Br. B 
Col. Fig. Br. 221 <’ 88 «)i Lilfordi 
^ C “- B. Brig Mus., Hi., p. I46 
tail; on li ' e ™S* and 
l ? th, 15 inches ; c <£“ 
Sexes alike in plumage. 
Young.— Dusky black, without the eloss nf th» ^ , 
and legs orange-yellow. 8 0 t le a < 3 ults ; bill 
Range in the British Islands.— Now , 
localities in the South-western counties of F 1 Certain 
Wales, the Isle of Man but stin hi L England ’ parts of 
localities in Ireland. It also occur/i ° means / a re in some 
Islands of Scotland as far ITth T&T' 
now almost entirely restricted to the searoast f 13 
formerly found inland, as it is now on the Continent of T?f 
and the mountains of Asia, and the Himalayas n® °? e 
the Channel Islands. Himalayas. Occurs in 
Range outside the British Islands— An inhabitant of the 
and mountains, the Chough is found distributed nv- P *if S 
countries on both sides of the Mediterranean in PortnJT , 
Western France, but it does not range far to the nor h n’ ^ 
Continent of Europe, i tl , imit being g givm by 
