. Arctic zoology .. . s cryis lefs harlh. It feeds on fruits and berries, and commonly fpoilsmore than it eats. It is particularly fond of the berries of the bay-leaved Smilax. Refides in the country all the year. Lays in May fiveor fix eggs, of a dull olive, with rufty fpots. r^ With a crefted head : bill, neck, and back, black: lefler co- ^i verts of the wings dufky^ the others of a rich refplendent blue:exterior webs of the primaries of the fame color -, the inner dufky jthe fecondaries of a beautiful rich blue, crofled with narrow blackbars, remote from each other : the rump, b
. Arctic zoology .. . s cryis lefs harlh. It feeds on fruits and berries, and commonly fpoilsmore than it eats. It is particularly fond of the berries of the bay-leaved Smilax. Refides in the country all the year. Lays in May fiveor fix eggs, of a dull olive, with rufty fpots. r^ With a crefted head : bill, neck, and back, black: lefler co- ^i verts of the wings dufky^ the others of a rich refplendent blue:exterior webs of the primaries of the fame color -, the inner dufky jthe fecondaries of a beautiful rich blue, crofled with narrow blackbars, remote from each other : the rump, belly, and breaft, of a dullblue : tail very long, cuneiform, and of a fine glofly blue; the mid-dle feathers flightly barred. Size of an Englijh Jay. Inhabits the woods about Natka or George found, in North America, PtAca, It had been before difcovered by Steller, when he landed on the famefid« of that continent. Defcribed from a fpecimen in the coUeftionof Sir Joseph Banks, • Latham, i. 387, K k Roojt, 350 R © A. Rook, Br. Ztol. i. N 76.—Latham, i. 372. Corvus Frugilegus, Roka, Faun. Suet. N ^j.—De Buffon, iii. Place. /^ Black, glofied with purple : a tinge of dull green over part ofthe tail: the ends of the feathers of the tail broad, and rounded jthofe of the Crow, acute: the bill ftraiter, flenderer, and weaker, thanthat of the Carrion Crow: the length two inches and a halfj that of thelatter only two inches and a quarter. The bill of the Crow is of a-more intenfe black. The noftrils and bafe of the bill of the , and whitifli, occafioned by being often thruft under groundin fearch of food. The Weight of both nearly the fame, abouttwenty-one ounces: the length about : the extentof wings in the Rook three feet one inch and a half j of the Crow,two inches and a half lefs *. This fpecies is not found farther north than the fouth of breeds there; but is driven away by the feverity of the mention is made of it in the
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