392 The Hijlory ANIMALS, 
Corvus niger rojlro longiore rubente . 
The black Corvus , with a long red beak . 
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This fpecies is about the fize of the jack-daw, and is not unlike it in figure: the 
feathers hand more loofely and irregularly on it than on that fpecies, and it thence 
looks larger, but their weight is about equal: the head is moderately large, and is flat¬ 
ted on the crown * the eyes are large, and of a very piercing afpedt j the beak is 
very Angular, both in it’s figure and colour; the upper chap is fomewhat longer than 
the under ; the whole beak is fomewhat longer, in proportion, than in any of the 
Corvus-kind, and is flrong, and not very fharp at the point: the colour is throughout 
a bright and beautiful red • the membrane which inverts the bafe of it is of the fame 
colour, but deeper, and in this hand the noftrils; they are of a roundifh figure, but 
approaching fomewhat to oval, and are furrounded by fhort and curled brirtles inftead 
of feathers. 
The body is flender, in proportion to it’s length; the feathers, however, ftand fo 
Ioofe, that this is not fo readily perceived ; the whole is a deep black, without any va¬ 
riegation : there is, indeed, a (hade of a deep purplifh, changeable hue, diffufed over 
the back and breaft, but the abfolute black is the ground colour throughout : the long 
feathers of the wings are twenty in each, and they are of a deeper black than thofe of 
the body : the tail is moderately long, and is compofed of twelve feathers, and thefe 
alfo are of the fame deep black, but with a Angle tinge of the purple diffufed over 
them : the lower part of the belly is darker than any other part. 
The legs are moderately long and flender; they are of a fine bright fcarlet, and 
the feet are of the fame colour: the toes are long and fcaly • the claws are not very 
long, but they are fharp, and of a deep black, and that of the hinder toe is longer 
than any other. 
It is a native of all the northern parts of Europe; with us, it is very common about 
the rocky cliffs of our fhores, and about high buildings that are near the fea. It is 
no-where fo frequent as in Cornwall, whence it obtained it’s name of the Cornifh 
Chough. Authors have defcribed it under the different names of Coracias and Pytho- 
corax. It’s voice is like that of the jack-daw, and it makes the fame inceffant noife. 
The children about our fea-coafts fometimes breed it up tame, and learn it to imitate 
the human voice, which it does very happily. All the Corvus-kind, indeed, have 
organs for the doing this, and many other birds, which nobody has ever thought of 
inftrudting. 
Corvus virefcens capite variegato. 
The greenijh Corvus, with a variegated head\ 
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This is an extreamly Angular, and alfo an extreamly beautiful, bird; it is of the 
fize of the common jay, anti greatly refembles it in fhape, but nothing can be more 
different than it’s colours from thofe of that bird : the head is moderately large, a 
little compreffed, and confiderably flatted on the crown: the eyes are not large, but 
very piercing in their afpedt; their iris is of a gold yellow, and their pupil black v 
the beak is about three quarters of an inch long, not very thick, rtraight, and pointed 
at the extremity, and both chaps of it are very nearly equal: the nortrils fraud to¬ 
ward the top of the membrane that inverts it’s bafe; they are round, and are placed 
at a fmall diftance from one another, and are furrounded by fome finort, curled 
feathers. 
The head is of a deep chefnut-brown on the crown, and the fame colour extends 
itfelf down fome part of the neck behind, but, at the fides near the eyes, it is of a 
very elegant gold yellow : the reft of the neck is of a pale brown 5 and the whole 
body, back, breaft, and belly, are of a very elegant and fhining green, fomewhat 
like 
