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fmall flocks near Louden, where they are'feldom much perfecuted,
being fuppofed an ufeful bird.
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PCiR. Ox vW..
La Corneille du Senegal, Bu f.oif. iii. p. 67.— P I enl. 317.
Corvus dauricus, Pallas Trav. vol. i. p. 694. N° 8.
Chiiiefe black Ravens with white necks, OJb. Voy% vol. i. p. 377#
WJiite-breafted Crow, Fryer's Trav. p. 21.
Description. O IZ E o f a fmall Crow : length twelve inches or more. Bill
black : the head and throat are black, glofied with blue : the
neck and breaft white : the reft o f the body, wings, and tail, blue
P lace
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.Manners.
black : legs lead-colour : claws black.
T h e bird figured in the Planches enluminées came from Senegal ;
but it is by no means confined to that quarter. There is no
doubt o f it being the one defcribed by Pallas, above quoted,
which he fays come early in the fpring in great flights from China,
and the Southern Monguls country, into the parts about the Lake
Baikal, but moft frequent about the towns and villages on the
river Lena, in which part the Jackdaws and Royfton Crows are
very feldom feen.
I am well informed alfo, that they are found in vaft numbers
in the ifland of Johanna, where they live chiefly on infells and
fruits, and make their nefts in trees.
Pallas mentions a .variety o f thefe, found among the others,
which is almoft wholly black : the nape o f the neck and the
throat brown.
I have alfo been favoured with a further variety, in a drawing
from Mr. Pennant, in which not only the ufual parts, but alfo the
belly and vent, were white ; a figure o f which we have thought fit
to add to this work. See PI. X V .
I think