. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . econd, thesecond a little longer than the eighth, and a little shorterthan the seventh, the third and sixth equal, and but littleshorter than the fourth and fifth, which are also equal, andthe longest in the wing; secondaries and tertiaries, black, mthfour or five narrow bars of white, some of the latter alsoedged and tipped with pale buff, with an oblique stripe ofthe same on the inner web of the last tertial feather. Thetail, of ten feathers, square at the tip, black, with a well-defined semilunar white bar, tending on the sides towa
. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . econd, thesecond a little longer than the eighth, and a little shorterthan the seventh, the third and sixth equal, and but littleshorter than the fourth and fifth, which are also equal, andthe longest in the wing; secondaries and tertiaries, black, mthfour or five narrow bars of white, some of the latter alsoedged and tipped with pale buff, with an oblique stripe ofthe same on the inner web of the last tertial feather. Thetail, of ten feathers, square at the tip, black, with a well-defined semilunar white bar, tending on the sides towards theend; upper tail coverts, white at the base, black at the ends;under tail coverts, white. Legs, brown, feathered in frontabove the knee, scaled below; toes, brown; claws, horn-colouror black, slightly curved. The female is paler in colour. The crest is less than inthe male. Tertiaries without the buff. In the young, (which are at first covered with long greydown, and the bill very short and straight,) the breast iscrossed with narrow dusky 27 CHOUGH. RED-LEGGED CEOW. COKNISH CHOUGH. COElflSH DAW. CORlSrWALL KAE. KILLIGEEW. MAEKET-JEW CEOW. CHAUK DAW. HEEMIT CEOW. EED-LEGGED JACKDAW. CLIFF DAW. GESNEes WOOD CEOW. Pyrrhocorax graculns, Fleming. Corvus gracy-ius, Pennant. MoNTAGtr, docilis, Gmelin, Fregiliis graculuSf Selby. Jenyns. Pyrrhocorax. Pyrrhos—Red. Corax—A ClOW. Graculus—A Chough, Jackdaw, or Jay. Althotjgh generically distinct, yet, both in song and story,*the Chough and Crow seem fated to be associated together. This bird is a native of the three continents of the oldworld. It is known to inhabit France, the mountains ofSwitzerland, Spain, the Island of Crete, Egypt, and the northof Africa, the mountains of Persia, the southern parts ofSiberia, and the Himalayan mountains in India. In Yorkshire, one of these birds was killed by the gamekeeperof Randall Gossip, Esq., of Hatfield, near Doncaster. Twoothers are spoken of; one as having been shot near
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