. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . ill often rake up neccffity, but not while any thing they like better is toy are not accounted good to TRe=*anadenris is in length 9 i!;ches/«andweighs two ounces. The bill is blackifii, and not quitean inch long : the irides are black : the forehead andthroat aie Ota dirty yellowilh white; the hind-hcajand fides ofblackifli brown: the 1 ^per pans of thebody arc brown; licueath
. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . ill often rake up neccffity, but not while any thing they like better is toy are not accounted good to TRe=*anadenris is in length 9 i!;ches/«andweighs two ounces. The bill is blackifii, and not quitean inch long : the irides are black : the forehead andthroat aie Ota dirty yellowilh white; the hind-hcajand fides ofblackifli brown: the 1 ^per pans of thebody arc brown; licueath paleafh, pjic,^ on the breaft:the quills niiJ tail are brown, tipped with white: •?• ccigedithc legs and claws are blackilh. Thefebrds ? Canada; and nrt frequent near HudfcnsBay, .:y arc calieJ. tVhijUjohn and They brceJ early in the ipri;!g; build in pine-tr*ffl|;?.nd have two, rarely ihree, young at a time. W^^egus are blue. They are not gregarious. Their foodis black niofs, worms, and flelli. They are very boldpilfering birds, dealing from the traveller even faitmeat, and devouring often the bait from the traps fet for (t rf(f/n Plate rXMX Ci> /X tr/ /J^ II COR [ •or»»« for the ; as (ouii as the pciloiis who fee thcin 11 turn their backs. They lay up Itorcs tor winter ; at Loryban- wliich time thcy are IclJoiu loeii iinkls near habita- t-*- tious. Thcy do not bear well. What natural noie ilicy have, vvc arc not lolJ ; biit thcy are faid to act tlic mackiiig bird, in imiiutiii^ that of others.—There are near 30 other fpccics. CoRVUs (A\, in aftroiiomy, a conflellatioii ofthe foathern hemilpherc; whore Itars in PtolemysCatalogue are 7; in Fychos as many ; in the iiritannicCatalogue 9. CoRvui, in Roman antiquity, a military engine, orrather gallery, moveable at plcalurc by ot pul-lies; chielly ufed in boarding the enemys Ihips to co-ver the men. The conltruition of the corvus w
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