. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and Lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds. COBVID^—CORVINE: CROWS. 417 340. c. frngi'voms. (^woTMS, fruit-eating:/rwa;, fruit; voro, I devour.) Common Ameri- can Crow. The common crow is a foot and a hal
. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and Lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds. COBVID^—CORVINE: CROWS. 417 340. c. frngi'voms. (^woTMS, fruit-eating:/rwa;, fruit; voro, I devour.) Common Ameri- can Crow. The common crow is a foot and a half long, or rather more; wing 12 to 14 inches; tail 7 to 8; bUl , al)out high at base ; tarsus about equal to middle toe and claw, rather exceeding the bill. First primary not longer than 10th. Feathers of the throat oval, ' soft, and blended; no snowy-white under-plumage. The burnishing is chiefly on the wings, tail, and back, the head being nearly dead-black. The ? is decidedly smaller than the ^, and under-sized cabinet specimens are not seldom labelled " ; Eastern N. Amer., chiefly U. S., not ordinarily found westward in the interior, where the raven abounds ; rare or wanting in the Upper Missouri and Southern Kooky Mt. regions; common, however, in some parts of California. In settled parts of the country the crow tends to colonize, and some of its "roosts" are of vast extent. Mine is on the Virginia side of the Potomac, near Washington. Crows are "always flying west over the city in the afternoon, and when as a boy I used to see the gray of the morning, crows were flying the other way. It is doubtless the same now; but I oftener hear midnight migrants than see such " early birds " these days. Nest in trees, any- where in the woods, usually concealed with some art, though so bulky; buUt of sticks and trash; eggs 4-6-7, 1-60 X 1-20, like the raven's in color and markings, and equally variable. {G. americanus, Auct.
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