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CORVIDAE. 
INS ESSO RES. 
CONIROSTRES. 
COR VIDjE. 
CHOUGH. 
RED-LEGGED CROW. 
Fregilus GRACULUS. 
PLATE LVI. 
To the persevering kindness of the Rev. W. I). Fox, 
I was indebted for the egg from which the drawing in 
the “ Oology ” was made at a time when these eggs were 
scarcely known, together with the nest which conUtined 
five eggs. The Red-legged Crow is tolerably frequent 
round the British islands. It abounds on the Isle of 
Man; is said to breed on the western isles of Scotland ; 
is met with sparingly near Berwick-on-Tweed, and on 
the coasts of Devonshire and Cornwall. Mr. Fox has 
also observed them on all the steep rocks and promon¬ 
tories of the Isle of Wight, and on the noble cliffs of the 
Isle of Purbeck in Dorsetshire. Mr. Henry Doubleday 
saw them during the breeding-season on the northern 
cliffs of the Isle of Jersey. 
It is, notwithstanding this general distribution, a mat¬ 
ter of some difficulty to procure its eggs ; and it was not 
till after some years of fruitless endeavour that Mr. Fox 
succeeded in obtaining them, arising from the “ excessive 
caution the birds employ in selecting their places of nidi- 
fication. These are always on the face of the steepest 
cliffs, and in general in clefts far in; the passage to which 
