. British zoology . gged. Scurapola. Chouette ou Choucarouge. Be Ion a=v. gracculus faxatilis (Stein-tahen, Stein-frae). Gefner anj. 522, , Taccola. Aldr. anj, L orn. Jyn. av. Crave. Hifl. dOys. IIL I. The Killegrew. Charlton ex, 75-Cornwall Kae. Sib. Scot. Cornnv. 249. Tab. ^ Vol. I. Coracias. Brijfon av. II. 4. Tab. gracculus. Lin. fyjl. pyrrhocorax. Haf- felquiji it in. ZooL 83. plate L *.Gracula pyrrhocorax. Scopoli, No. 46. THIS fpecies is but thinly fcattered over t
. British zoology . gged. Scurapola. Chouette ou Choucarouge. Be Ion a=v. gracculus faxatilis (Stein-tahen, Stein-frae). Gefner anj. 522, , Taccola. Aldr. anj, L orn. Jyn. av. Crave. Hifl. dOys. IIL I. The Killegrew. Charlton ex, 75-Cornwall Kae. Sib. Scot. Cornnv. 249. Tab. ^ Vol. I. Coracias. Brijfon av. II. 4. Tab. gracculus. Lin. fyjl. pyrrhocorax. Haf- felquiji it in. ZooL 83. plate L *.Gracula pyrrhocorax. Scopoli, No. 46. THIS fpecies is but thinly fcattered over thenorthern world: no mention is made of itby any of the Faunijls \ nor do we find it in otherparts of Europe., except England^ and the Alps^.In Aftdy the ifland of Candia produces itf. InAfrica., ARgypt: which lad place-^ it vifits towardsthe end of the inundations of the Nile J. Except * P/in. nat. hiji. lib. X. c. 48. f Belon obf. 17. \ Hajfelquiji itin, 240. Brifony 11. 5. j^gypt j\r 9r RED LKCtOEB CROM^.. Class II. RED LE G G E D. 229 Mgypt it affeds mountanous and rocky fituations;and builds its neft in high cliffs, or ruined towers,and lays four or five eggs, white fpotted with adirty yellow. It feeds on infe61:s, and alfo on newfown corn: they commonly fly high, make afhriller noife than the jackdaw, and may be taughtto fpeak. It is a very tender bird, and unable tobear very fevere weather ; is of an elegant, flendermake ; a6live, refllefs, and thieving ; much tak-en with glitter, and fo meddling as not to betrufled where things of confequence lie. It is veryapt to catch up bits of lighted flicks; fo that thereare inflances of houfes being fet on fire by itsmeans; which is the reafon that Camden calls itincendiaria avis* Several of the IVelJh and Cor-Tiijh families bear this bird in their coat of is found in Cornwall^ Flint/hire^ Caernarvonjhire,and Anglejea^ in the cliffs and caflles along theHiores •, and in different parts of Scotland as faras Strait
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