. A history of British birds . gists have brol^en np the genus Corvus still further than wasdone when the Pies, Jays and a few other natural groups were removed from it;but as regards its European members with no great success. Thus the Ravenbeing left as the type-species, the Crow, Rook and Daw have been placed iugenera respectively called Corone, Tri/punocorax and Cofceus—all the inventionof Kaup, the first and last in 1829, and the second, of which Bonaparte hadprior notice (Consp. Av. i. p. 384), in a communication to the meeting of theGerman Ornithologists Society at Gotha (Journ. fiir Or
. A history of British birds . gists have brol^en np the genus Corvus still further than wasdone when the Pies, Jays and a few other natural groups were removed from it;but as regards its European members with no great success. Thus the Ravenbeing left as the type-species, the Crow, Rook and Daw have been placed iugenera respectively called Corone, Tri/punocorax and Cofceus—all the inventionof Kaup, the first and last in 1829, and the second, of which Bonaparte hadprior notice (Consp. Av. i. p. 384), in a communication to the meeting of theGerman Ornithologists Society at Gotha (Journ. fiir Orn. 1854, p. Iv. note). LinniBus has been blamed by some writers for giving the present species atrivial name so misleading as frwjileyus. It may be remarked that herein heonly acted according to his well-known princijiles, preserving the name by whichit was almost universally known, and still surviving, accoi-ding to some, in theFrench Freax, though M. Littre derives this from the Teutonic llrvoch, thesource of our own PASSETiKS. DAW. 305 CORV/DJJ.
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