. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. CASSELL'S NATURAL ,*; ,^ '#^^'^'^:\//^/);;;-^ '^i ORDER III.—PASSERIFORMES—THE PERCHING BIRDS. CHAPTER I. CROWS. Order of Perching Birds largest of all Orders—Chief Distinguishing Features—Two Great Sections of Passerine Birds- '^CT/OiVr .4fieOjUl'OZ)7-C'iassification by Wing-Sub-order TURDIFOKMES-THE CROWS ——The Comjion Rook—Appearance-Young Rook—Bare Face—Distribution—Breeding Habits —Attachment to Xesting-places. or " Rookeries "—Is it a Useful Bird?—Its Vigorous Appetite—The Tkie Ravens—D
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. CASSELL'S NATURAL ,*; ,^ '#^^'^'^:\//^/);;;-^ '^i ORDER III.—PASSERIFORMES—THE PERCHING BIRDS. CHAPTER I. CROWS. Order of Perching Birds largest of all Orders—Chief Distinguishing Features—Two Great Sections of Passerine Birds- '^CT/OiVr .4fieOjUl'OZ)7-C'iassification by Wing-Sub-order TURDIFOKMES-THE CROWS ——The Comjion Rook—Appearance-Young Rook—Bare Face—Distribution—Breeding Habits —Attachment to Xesting-places. or " Rookeries "—Is it a Useful Bird?—Its Vigorous Appetite—The Tkie Ravens—Distribution—The Common Raven—Ravens of the Old and New World—Distribution—Habits—His After- Dinner Talk—The Common Jackdaw—Social Chaa-acter—Cleverness—Appearance—Habitat—Curious instance of Daubing its Eggs—The Hooded Crow—Distribution—A Migration—Heligoland and its Inhabitants—The Carrion Ckcw—Distribution—Inter-breeding with the Hooded Crow—Mr. Lumsden's Note on the Subject—Mr. Seebohm's Note on the Birds in Eastern Siberia—Habits—The Indian Grev-necked Crow—Captain Vincent Legge's Account of its —The Common Magpie—Mischievous Habits—Familiarity—Instances of Nesting in Gooseberry Bushes— Appearance—The Tree Pies—The Indian Tree Pie-The Common Jay—Its Bad Character-As a Pet—Appearance —The Blue Jays—The Common Blue —The Lonc-tailed Blue Jays—The Bake-necked Crow—The Huia, or New Zealand Wood Crow—Curious Form—Dr. BuUer's Account—Its Habitat—Rarity—Disposition—How Specimens were Caught—Diet—How they Searched for Food—Second Sub-family of the Crows—CHOUGHS. The order of Perching Birds, known to our readers by the names of Passerine birds, or Insessores, is the largest of all the orders, and contains more than half of the whole niniiber of birds now known. One of the chief distinguishing features of a Passerine bird is its foot, which is simple
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