. A general synopsis of birds . ws black. The bird figured in the Planches enluminees came from Senegal 1ibut it is by no means confined to that quarter. There is nodoubt of it being the one defcribed by Pallas, above quoted,which he fays come early in the fpring in great flights from China,and the fouthern Monguls country, into the parts about the LakeBaikal, but moft frequent about the towns and villages on theriver Lena, in which part the Jackdaws and Royjion Crows arevery feldom feen. I am well informed alfo, that they are found in vaft numbersin the ifland of Johanna, where they live chie
. A general synopsis of birds . ws black. The bird figured in the Planches enluminees came from Senegal 1ibut it is by no means confined to that quarter. There is nodoubt of it being the one defcribed by Pallas, above quoted,which he fays come early in the fpring in great flights from China,and the fouthern Monguls country, into the parts about the LakeBaikal, but moft frequent about the towns and villages on theriver Lena, in which part the Jackdaws and Royjion Crows arevery feldom feen. I am well informed alfo, that they are found in vaft numbersin the ifland of Johanna, where they live chiefly on infefts andfruits, and make their nefts in trees. Pallas mentions a variety of thefe, found among the others,which is almoft wholly black : the nape of the neck and thethroat brown. I have alfo been favoured with a further variety, in a drawing from Mr. Pennant, in which not only the ufual parts, but alfo the belly and vent, were white; a figure of which we have thought fit £0 add to this work. See PI. XV. I think CROW, I think there cannot remain a doubt of its being alfo theWhite-breajled Crow, mentioned in Fryers Travels as a bird com-mon in Perfia, though he barely mentions the circumflanee. 3*17 T ENGTH above fifteen inches. Bill fourteen lines long,ftouc, and of a black colour: irides pale yellow: eye-lidsblack : general colour of the plumage cinereous, except the tail,which is five inches in length, and of a black colour: legs New Caledonia. The defcription taken from a drawingin the collection of Sir Jofepb Banks. NEW CALE-DONIANCROW. La Corneille de la Jamaique, Brif. orti. ii. p. 22. N° 5.— Buf. oif. iii. 8. p. 67. CHATTERING Chattering Crow, or Cacao Walk, Sloan. Jam. vol. ii. p. 298.—Rati Sj».p. 181. CROW. CIZE of a common Crow: length eighteen inches. Bill aninch and a half long, and black j as is the whole plumageand legs. This bird is common in Jamaica, and frequents the moun-tainous parts of that ifland: it
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