C R O W .
bill, white irides, blueifh legs, and the fecondary quills, rump, and
bafe of the tail, yellow *. I cannot therefore fuppofe them to be
the fame bird, though Brijfon has fo placed them in his fy-
nonyms.
AFRICAN
CRQW.
D i s c r e t i o n .
Pl a c i .
Lrv. M u f
J^ ENG TH one foot ten inches. Bill red: the head and neck
of a dark purple; the firft fomewhat crefted; each feather
tipped with grey, as far as the hind head: back brown: belfy.
dirty pale afh-colour: quills blueifh on the outer edges: tail
much cuneated j the two middle feathers are twelve inches long,
the outer ones fhort; all of them tipped with white: the legs
are red.
This fpecies is faid to come from Africa, and appears to have-
much fimilarity -with the laft defcribed, if not the fame bird;
wanting, however, in one part of the defcription, that the rump is
not yellow.
MEXICAN
CROW.
La grande Pie du Mexique, B r i f or». ii. p. 43. N° 4»
L’Hocifana, Bu/, oif. iii. p. 103*
Hoitzanatl, R ait Syn. p. 162.
Criard, Permtty Voy. aux Malouines, vol. i. p._ 185*.
D i s c u p t i c n , CJIZE of a Jackdaw. Bill black.: the plumage wholly blue
black: legs and claws black; the laft very long,
*- This fcem; to be the Hack and y tlh ’vi Oriole ?
6- Inhabits
Inhabits Meric«. Said to be perpetually chattering, with a
ftrong and founding voice, and frequents the neighbourhood of
cities *.
P cA C l.
Surinam Daw, Brown'fjUufi. t. 10.
g I Z E of a common Crow. Bill dufky: head deep green; hind
part rich blue; beneath that pale green; beneath each ear,
and on the hind part of the neck, a fpot of the fame: neck,
breaft,. belly, back, and wing coverts, deep changeable green :
prime quills dufky; ends rich blue: tail dufky: legs flefh-
colour.
S i SUCRRIONWAM.
D e s c r i p t io n
Inhabits Surinam. In the colleftion- of M. Tunfal, Efq, The
fpecimen had loft its tail..
E tAW.
La:petite'Pie du Mexique, Br if. orn. ii. p. 44. N& 5.
Le Zanoe, Buf. oif. iii. p. 106.
Tzanahoei, feu Pica Mexic. Hernand. Raii Syu. p. 162.
36- MLEEXSSICEAR-N CROW.
C IZ E of our Magpie. Bill black: the body is covered with-
blackifh feathers: head and neck incline to fulvous: tail very
long : legs and claws black.
D e s c r i p t io n .
Inhabits Mexico, where it is faid'to have all the manners of the
Magpie, as well as cunning; learning to talk like that bird;
and adds, that its-natural cry is not unlike that of a Starling.
• Thefe mult be the Criards which Pernetty talks of at the ifle of St. Catha-
rinti on the coaft of BraJHt whole plumage was of a line light blue. They
were, fays he, the common Crow of the country, and are like it in lhape; but
are not a.bit better to eat,.
P l a c e .
Corvus