. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE EOrSTON, OR HOODED CROW. 297 are short, and when closed do not reach within an inch of the tip of the tail. As is the case with many others of the same tribe, there are instances of pale and pied Jackdaws, the wings and tail being generally darker than the remainder of the body. In the British Museum there is a good specimen of an albino jay, the body being creamy white, while the wings retain the barred bine and black so characteristic of the species, but extremely pale. Sometimes t


. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE EOrSTON, OR HOODED CROW. 297 are short, and when closed do not reach within an inch of the tip of the tail. As is the case with many others of the same tribe, there are instances of pale and pied Jackdaws, the wings and tail being generally darker than the remainder of the body. In the British Museum there is a good specimen of an albino jay, the body being creamy white, while the wings retain the barred bine and black so characteristic of the species, but extremely pale. Sometimes the Jackdaw will take possession of the deserted nest of a rook or crow, and laying a substratum of hay and wool upon the original fabric, deposit its eggs and i-ear its young upon this easily-gotten property. Occasionally, but very rarely, the Jackdaw has been seen to build a regular nest in the branches of trees, rocks, or rabbit-warrens—ruins and church-towers being wanting. The remarkable bird which has veiy appropriately been called the Geeat-billed Crow, is, undoubtedly, the most singular example of the whole tribe. In its dimensions it is much larger than an ordinary crow, and rather smaller than a raven, for which bird it might be taken but for the extraordinary beak. The bill of this species is. GREAT-BILLED CHOVf.— Coi-cultur crassirostris. SO large as to remind the observer of a toucan or a puffin, and the bite of such a powerful weapon must be most formidable. It is very deep, thick, and rounded, becoming wider at the top and deeply ridged, curving suddenly to a point, and very sharp at its extremity. In color it is jetty-black, except the extreme tip, which is white. The color of this bird is deep shining black on the upper jiarts, like that of the raven, having a slight purplish gloss upon the sides. Upon tlie back of the neck there is a pure white oval mark, and upon the shoulders there is another white patch of a crescentic shape ; the two being connected wit


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