i'ngs brought from thence. In the north o f America, about Hu&-
fan’s Bay, called Hahafeu : obferved to be mod plenty inland, fel~
dom appearing on the coafts *. Our voyagers met with both.
Crows and Ravens at Nootka Sound f , where the firft is called:
Kaennei or Koenai J.
A Crew like our Carrion Crow was obferved at Botany Bay, in
New Holland. ||. This fpecies is not found in Ireland §.
Rook, Gen. Syn. i. p. 372. N°*4.— Arä. Zool. ii. p. 250. A\
T H I S ufeful fpecies- feems much more confined than the la ft.
It is not mentioned, by either Brunnieh os Muller, as inhabiting
Denmark, nor in the lift o f Georgi, as frequenting the Lake Baikal.
I t is however faid to be met;with about Aftrachan f-r. is not utv
common in Ruffia, and the weftern part of Sibiria, particularly in
the more fouthern. latitudes.. I do not find it any where men—
tioned.as an American,fpecies.
This and the Crow by common obfervers are mot eafily diftin-
guilhed : but in the common Crow the upper mandible is much
larger, ffiarper, and more curved, and reaches farther over the under
one than in the Rook, in which the point appears blunt, and
fcarcely projedts over the inferior **. The bill is obferved to be
weaker in the Rook than in the Crow, and o f not fo deep a black :
the ends of the tail feathers in the Rook are broad and rounded,
but thofe of the Crow are .acute j- f. L ike the Raven and Crow,
* Mr. Hutchins. . f Ellis Nar. ji. p. 143-. J Cook's Laß Voy. App.
|| Arä, Zool, § Mr. Jackfon, *[ Dec, Ruff. ii, p, 143, ** Mr, Tunflall,.
€ R O W .
this fpecies is fometimes found of a pure white. Mr. ’Tunflall has
one o f thefe in his colledtion, in which the bill was white alfo. I
have feen others black and white, and one quite brown, the colour
of a Jay.
Hooded Crow, Gen, Syn. i’. p. 374. N° 5 —Aril. Zool'.Yu p. 251. B.
Corvus cornix, Brun, N®;30.— Muller, N° 88.— Georgi Reife, p. 165.
* S 'H I S bird is very common throughout Ruflia and Sibiria, but
not beyond the Lena. Migrates to IForonefch, and paifes the
winter there : grows very large beyond the Ob, and often varies to-
intenfe blacknefs *.
Found', with feveral others o f thisgenus, at Aleppo f , and common
about the Lake Baikal -, and moft likely extends to other
parts of Afla, as I have been informed that in fome parts of India
they are common, and fo bold as to fnatch the food from the dilhes
while the-fervants are carrying them acrofs the court-yards, except
they are kept off by beating
It is faid that the culture o f the cinnamon-tree, in Ceylon, is owing
to Crows, hut what fpecies is uncertain. They are faid to eat
the quick-tafted, and red fruit of-this tree, and with the fruit to
fwallow the kernels, and fcatter them every where about with
their excrements. On this account, none dares to Ihoot a Crow,
under a fevere penalty [|_
* ArB. Zool. f Ruff. Alep. p. 6g, J Mr. Pennant.
|| Life and Adventures of J . Chrijlian Wolf— This circumftance is attributed to
the White Nutmeg Pigeon,. See vol. iv. p. 638. Note *.
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