. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . s, Chirn-side parish; Crowshiel, and Crow Green, on the Tweed,near Lennel, Coldstream parish; Craw Cleuch, on KilpalletBurn, and Little Craw Cleuch, on a tributary of KilpalletBurn, on the march with East-Lothian; also Craw Cleugh,on a tributary of Watch Water, about half-a-mile west fromTwinlawford, in Cranshaws parish. Craw Burn is an oldname of Howpark Burn, a tributary of the Eye, which isstill applied to the unde
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . s, Chirn-side parish; Crowshiel, and Crow Green, on the Tweed,near Lennel, Coldstream parish; Craw Cleuch, on KilpalletBurn, and Little Craw Cleuch, on a tributary of KilpalletBurn, on the march with East-Lothian; also Craw Cleugh,on a tributary of Watch Water, about half-a-mile west fromTwinlawford, in Cranshaws parish. Craw Burn is an oldname of Howpark Burn, a tributary of the Eye, which isstill applied to the under-part of it; Craws Entry, leadingfrom Bents Corner plantation to Marchmont policy-ground,in Polwarth parish. East and West Crow Butts are like-wise the names of two fields on the farm of Blackpotts, inthe parish of Coldingham; and the Books and the LittleBooks are the names of two rocks off the coast at Dowlawin the same parish. Craw-taes {Lotus corniculatus), Craw-pease {Lathyruspratensis), Craw-berry and Craw-crooks (Empetrum nigrum),are popular names of wild plants in Berwickshire.^ Dr. Johnston, Natural History of the Eastern Borders, vol. i., Bot;my,pp. 55, 56, %^t/^- -n^^;/^-«;^^^^^v*.^%^#i FASSERES. ( 240 ) CORVID^. THE RAVEN. CROW, CORBY OR CORBIE. Gorvus ^t Corbie. Oivre the moor, near yonder kirk, ^We II set the fagots in a lowe. And wrap the hags in tar a7id towe ;And there we winna let them shirk,Btit scouther them wi broom and birk, Bleezin on the Witches Knowe,- Bleezin round ilk hoary the hags will girn and gape ;Satan, in a Corbies come and take his pets away—Sic a bleeze we II hae that day. Popular Rhymes of Berwickshire. In former ages the Eaven was considered to be a bird ofill-omen, and in Berwickshire it was of such evil repute,that it was even supposed that the devil himself sometimesappeared in the shape of a Corbie. It was also associatedin the popular imagination with death, and dead bodies ; and ^ The old kerke
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