BALD FRUIT CROW . — ■ Gymnocephalus calvus , 
The Bald Fruit Crow is one of a little group of birds which are found hr 
South America.^ 
This species is equal to the English Crow in size, and is altogether of a 
thicker and larger make. It is very common in Guinea. The head of the Bald 
Fruit Crow is very large and heavily made, and the whole front of the bird is totally 
bare, like that of the leatherhead, already described and figured. Many natural- 
ists think that while the Bald Fruit Crow is still young, its head is clothed with 
feathers, together with the remainder of the body, and that like the rook of Europe 
it loses the feathers when it attains maturity. There has been considerable 
argument on the subject, but it seems to have been tolerably well settled that the 
young bird is feathered and the old bird is bare. 
It is seldom seen upon the ground, finding its food among the branches, and 
confining itself almost exclusively to their shelter. 
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