BRITISH BIRDS 
77 
THE RED-LEGGED CROW. 
CORNISH CHOUGH. 
(I Corvus GraculuSy Lin . — Le CoraciaSy Buff.) 
This bird is about the fize of the Jack-daw : The 
bill is long, much curved, Iharp at the tip, and 
of a bright red colour ; the iris of the eye is com- 
pofed of two circles, the outer one red, the inner 
light blue ; the eye-lids are red ; the plumage is 
altogether of a purplilh violet black ; the legs are 
as red as the bill ; the claws are large, much hook- 
ed, and black. 
Buffon defcribes this bird “ as of an elegant fi- 
gure, lively, reftlefs and turbulent, but it may be 
