. A history of British birds . eech came to be attributed to this bird. In-deed it is hardly possible for us to deny it the power ofcarrying on a conversation of some sort, for it is admittedthat while most birds by their notes express alarm, pleasureand certain other feelings, none has a greater capacity forindicating different sensations (whatever they may be) by itsarticulations, and it is not surprising that the varied notesof the Crow have met with many attempts at interpretationon the part of the rural population of this country andothers, some of them being highly humorous.! * Macgilliv
. A history of British birds . eech came to be attributed to this bird. In-deed it is hardly possible for us to deny it the power ofcarrying on a conversation of some sort, for it is admittedthat while most birds by their notes express alarm, pleasureand certain other feelings, none has a greater capacity forindicating different sensations (whatever they may be) by itsarticulations, and it is not surprising that the varied notesof the Crow have met with many attempts at interpretationon the part of the rural population of this country andothers, some of them being highly humorous.! * Macgillivray professes to have recognized a difference in the voices of thetwo forms, but the Editor believes there is none, and herein his opinion is corro-borated by Mr. Seebohm, whose testimony, from the opportunities he has en-joyed of hearing both almost simultaneously, is of great value. f The Grey Crow is the subject of a monograph in Dutch by Dr. N. Meursinge— Verhandeling over de Bonte Kraai (Grroningen: 1851, 8vo, 332 pp.).. PASSERES. ROOK. 289 CORVIDJi.
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