I think there cannot remain a doubt of its being alfo the
White-breajted Crow, mentioned in Fryer's Travels as a bird common
in Perfta, though he barely mentions the circumftance.
J^ EN G TH above fifteen inches. Bill fourteen lines long,
ftout, and of a black colour: irides pale yellow: eye-lids
black : general colour of the plumage cinereous, except the tail,
which is five inches in length, and of a black colour: legs black.
Inhabits New Caledonia. The defcription taken from a drawing
in- the collection of Sir Jofepb Banks.
La Corneille de la Jamaïque, Br if. orit. ii. p. 22, N° $.-— Bu f. oif. iii,
p. 67.
Chattering Crow, or Cacao Walk, Sloan. Jam. vol. ii. p, 258._Rail Syn. p. x8i.
g I Z E of a common Crow : length eighteen inches. Bill an
inch and a half long, and blacks as is the whole plumage
and legs.
This bird is common in Jamaica, and frequents the mountainous
parts of that lfland : it makes a chattering noife, different
from that of any of the European Crows, and is moil frequent on
the north fide of it: it is faid to be very near the common Crow
of England in outward appearance, but not ftriaiy the fame bird
It feeds on berries, beetles, &c. and by fome is accounted o-00d
meat,
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NEDWON CIAANLE . CROW.
Description#
P l a c e .
M CHACTRTOEWR.ING
D e s c r i p t io n ;
P la c e and
M a nne r s .
Corvus