. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . 136 PI. I-. ROOK. 197 INSESSORES. CORVIDjE. CONIROSTRES. PLATE CXXVII. ROOK. CORVUS FRUGILEGUS* The middle and southern portions of Europe appear tobe the climates chiefly adapted for the residence of the is also known to inhabit some of the temperate parts ofAsia, being found about the Black and Caspian Seas, andeastward, as far as Japan. From North America we haveno distinct information on the subject. The range of theRook in Europe is confined within much narrower limits thanthose assigned to the raven and the crow. It pene
. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . 136 PI. I-. ROOK. 197 INSESSORES. CORVIDjE. CONIROSTRES. PLATE CXXVII. ROOK. CORVUS FRUGILEGUS* The middle and southern portions of Europe appear tobe the climates chiefly adapted for the residence of the is also known to inhabit some of the temperate parts ofAsia, being found about the Black and Caspian Seas, andeastward, as far as Japan. From North America we haveno distinct information on the subject. The range of theRook in Europe is confined within much narrower limits thanthose assigned to the raven and the crow. It penetrates notfurther north than the southern parts of Sweden in summer,and leaves those regions entirely in winter. In Shetland itappears to be a bird of uncertain and periodical appearance,and is only mentioned by Mr. Edmonston in his Fauna ofthat island, as being sometimes seen in spring. InScotland, in parts at least of that kingdom, the Rook is apermanent resident; this is the case in Moray, according tothe Rev. G. Gordon, where this species remains all the year,fre
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