Whole length of an adult male twenty inches. Wings'
from the carpal joint to the end of the quill-feathers thirteen
inches : the first feather three inches shorter than the second,
which is one inch shorter than the third ; the third but little
shorter than'the fourth, which is the longest m the wing.
Females are smaller than males,' and- the grey portions of
the plumage are tinged with brown. Young birds resemble
their parents in having their plumage; grey, as mentioned on
the authority of Mr. Salmon;
The vignette below represents an accidental malformation
in the beak' of a Rook, for the opportunity of-figuring which
I am indebted to T. C. Heysham, Esq. of Carlisle.
INSESSORES. CORVIDAS.
T H E ROOK.
The Rook, Penn. Brit.’ Zdol. vol. i . p. 283. ■
' " ■ Mont. Ortiith. Diet.
,, Bewick, Brit. Biids, V©1. % p. f tl.
,, Flem,. Brit Ad., p. 88^
. „ Seeby, Brit. O r n r l h ; 3 S 3 .
,( Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 146.
. Gould, Birds of ^Europe, -pt. xiii.
he Fr'eux, Temm. Man. d*Oraith. vol. i. p. 110»
f T h e R ook, says Pennant, is the Corvus of Virgil; no
Other species of this kind being gregarious. The Poet seeniS
to have been partial to these'birds, bringing them into notice
on m’any ■occasions, and describing very naturally the evening