RAVEN. 
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The Raven is remarkable also for his longevity, being 
known to live more than a century. Although closely 
related to the tribes of smaller birds, with which he is 
very properly associated, yet he may still be considered 
as holding the place also of an additional link in the 
order of nature between the two preceding tribes of rapa- 
cious birds, namely, the Vultures and Hawks. 
The color of the Raven is a fine black, relieved with purple reflec- 
tions above ; tail black and much rounded. Bill strong, and, as well 
as the feet, black. The iris with 2 circles, greyish white, and cinere^ 
ous brown. The female is a little smaller. It varies sometimes to 
total whiteness, or is of a yellowish white. Occasionally some parts 
of the body are white, and others black or rufous. 
THE CROW. 
( Corvus corone , Lin. Wilson, iv. p. 79. pi. 35. fig. 3. Phil. Museum, 
No. 1246.) 
Sp. Charact. — Black and glossy, with violet- colored reflections; 
the tail somewhat rounded, extending but little beyond the 
wings ; the feathers of the tail acute ; the 4th primary longest, 
with the 1st equal to the 9th. [Length 18J inches.] 
The Crow, like the Raven, which it greatly resembles, 
is a denizen of nearly the whole world. They are found 
even in New Holland, and the Philippine Islands ; they 
are, however, rare in Sweden, where the Raven abounds, 
as they are in the western part of the United States, 
where this superior species likewise frequents ; nor are 
they common in the warmer parts of the Union, in conse- 
quence of the same antipathy, or persecution which they 
experience from the Vultures. They are also common 
in Siberia, and plentiful in the artic deserts beyond the 
Lena. 
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