G R E Y . OR H O O D E D C R O W .
GREY o e HOODED CROW.
CORVUS CORNIX, Linn.
Corvus cornix, Linn. S. N. i. p. 156 (1766); Naum. ii. p. 65;
Macg. i. p. 529; Hewitson, i. p. 224; Yarr. ed. 4, ii.
p. 275 ; Dresser, iv. p. 543.
Corbeau mantele, Corneille mantelee, French; Nebelrabe,
German.
I must refer my readers to my remarks upon the
Black, or Carrion Crow, for my principal reason for
treating of the present bird as at all events presenting
one very important difference from that species besides
that of plumage; and although I am fully disposed to
bow to the opinion of my friend Professor Alfred Newton
and other distinguished ornithologists, I feel sure that I
shall not be blamed by the majority of my subscribers
for the few following notes relating to this form. The
most curious part of its history is its capricious (if I
may be allowed the term) distribution. It breeds in all
parts of Ireland and throughout Scotland and its islands,
very rarely in England, abundantly throughout Scandinavia,
sparsely in Western or Central Germany, very
seldom, if ever, in France, the Netherlands, Switzerland,
Spain, and the Balearic Islands. On the other hand, it