( Corvus Frugilegusy Lin .— Le Freux> Buff.) 
This bird is about the fize of the Carrion Crow, 
and, excepting its more gloffy plumage, very much 
refembles it : The bafe of the bill, noftrils, and 
even round the eyes are covered with a rough 
fcabrous {kin, in which it differs from all the reft* 
occafioned, it is faid, by thrulling its bill into the 
earth in fearch of worms ; but as the fame ap- 
pearance has been obferved in fuch as have been 
brought up tame and unaccuftomed to that mode 
of fubfiftence, we are inclined to confider it as an 
original peculiarity. We have already had oc- 
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