young, are eafily made tame, and are efteemed good eating.
They are alfo found on all the high mountains of Italy, Stiria,
Switzerland, Bavaria, and the rocks on the borders of thé Danube.
It is faid that neither the young nor the very old birds
have the creft, whence they have-been called Bald Crows: ■ Buffott
wonders why M. Barrere Ihould call this a fpecies of Curlew;; but
could he have feen either Albin'o figure, or fueh another, the head
would have led him to think fo, for it feems quite naked of feathers,
fimilar to the baldeft fpecies of Ibis,
V
G enus
-N° i . ' parruIousR,
2. Abyffinian R.-S
3. Senegal R.
4. Long-tailed R,
5. Bengal R.
{ I 6. Oriental R. :
I 7. Indian R.
8. Cape R. ;
N°-9, :Blue R.
■ '"kov TJltramarine R.
" i l l Madagafcar R,
I i s Mexican R. §
J3- Blue-ftriped.R,
. , -.14. Chinefe R.
15. Cayenne R,
. 16. Pied R.
THE characters of this genus are,
The bjll ftrait, bending towards the tip, edges cultrated.
Noftrils narrow and. naked.
. Legs, for the moll part, Ihort.
Toes placed three before, and one behind; divided to their
origin. '
This genus is not confined to one fpot of the globe, as one or
other of the following fpecies may be met with in all the four
quarters of it.' It!differs from the lad;chiefly in the noftrils,
whiph are apparent in all the fpecies, being deftitute of reflected
brjftles. The fhortnefs of the legs, likewife is another characte-
riftic, and holds good at leaft in all which have come under my in-
fpe,<tion. I have thought it right to divide the whole of the following
lift into different fpecies, though perhaps without juft
foundation, and of which the reader muft judge for Himfelf.
Coracias