. 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 . ;i^^pi::^ff^i^S^ £ VOL. I. O PASSERES. { 210 ) CORVIDM. THE CARRION CROW. BLACK CROW, BLACK-NEB, CORBIE CROW, HODDY, HOODIE,GOR-CROW. Corvus Corbie Crato, ^^e ^ooliie. T/iey carried him to the good greenwood. Where the green pines groiv in a rorv ;And they heard the cry from the branches high, Of the hungry Carrion Crow. Leyden, Lord Soulis. Vit by my selfe I find this projterbe Blak Craw thinks
. 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 . ;i^^pi::^ff^i^S^ £ VOL. I. O PASSERES. { 210 ) CORVIDM. THE CARRION CROW. BLACK CROW, BLACK-NEB, CORBIE CROW, HODDY, HOODIE,GOR-CROW. Corvus Corbie Crato, ^^e ^ooliie. T/iey carried him to the good greenwood. Where the green pines groiv in a rorv ;And they heard the cry from the branches high, Of the hungry Carrion Crow. Leyden, Lord Soulis. Vit by my selfe I find this projterbe Blak Craw thinks her awin birdis quhyte. Gawin Douglas, Virgil. The Carrion Crow, Black Crow, or Corbie Craw, is rathercommon in Berwickshire, and is found about many of thewoods and plantations, where its harsh croaking notegenerally indicates its presence before it is seen. Inautumn and winter it seems to prefer the neighbourhoodof the sea-coast. Although it is a permanent resident inthe county, it appears to receive additions to its numbers inautumn from migratory flocks, and movements are alsoobserved in spring, at both of which seasons it has beenfrequently noticed in small scatter
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