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China; while it frequents at least the northern portion of Africa.

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191. Corvus coRNIx . : : : : : . . . . : Vol. III. Pl. LIX.
Hoopep Crow.

A resident species in the three kingdoms; breeds in Scotland and Ireland, and but very rarely in England ;

is to be met with in many parts of the European continent, both north and south; and is particularly common

in Palestine and Egypt, where it is often the foster-parent of the young of the Great Spotted Cuckoo

(Oxylophus glandarius).

192. Corvus FRUGILEGUS : : : : : : : : : : : Vol. Il: RiSixe
Rook.

I have retained this bird in the genus Corvus; many other authors have adopted Lesson’s genus Frugilegus,
and Prof. Kaup’s term of Zryphanocorax for it aud its immediate allies. Unlike the Crows the Rooks are
gregarious and associate in immense flocks; they differ from them also in the structure of their bills, the
peculiar form of which seems adapted fur some special purpose, perhaps for the procuration of a particular
kind of food, such as large underground-deposited larvee of insects, grain, and tuberous roots, as the
husbandman well knows to his cost. The Rook is even still more omnivorous ; for it will not refuse worms,
crustaceans, or carrion thrown up by the waves of the sea. Generally dispersed over England, Scotland, and

Ireland. Rooks are only found in a limited portion of the Old World.

193. Corvus MonEDULA : : : : ; . : : ; Vol. III. Pl. LXI.
JACKDAW.

Even this indigenous species and its several near allies have been subjected to a generic separation from

the genus Coreus, the term Lycos having been bestowed upon it by Boie, the specific names of the others

being collaris for the Macedonian bird, dauuricus for the Daurian and Chinese species, neglectus for that

inhabiting Japan. All are of small size when compared with the true Crows; they affect different situations

for the purpose of breeding, resorting to rocks, old towers, and holes in the ground rather than to the trees.

They are strictly denizens of the Old World.

Genus Freciuus.

Phe Red-legged Crows differ considerably from any of the species above noticed, and are certainly entitled

to as ; , rie; : . : 4 f

0 a separate generic appellation, and accordingly have received three or four. The genus comprises

but few species ee ee : : aa .
species, only two being recognized, namely the bird inhabiting Europe, #. gvaculus, and the

F, himalayensis of the Himalayas.