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Title: The birds of Europe
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Gould, John, 1804-1881
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London, Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, pub. by the author
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ed of sticks,wool and hair, for years in succession. The eggs, four or five in number, of a blueish green blotched withbrown, are produced very early in spring. The female during incubation, which lasts about twenty days, isregularly attended and fed by the male bird, who not only provides her with abundance of food, but relievesher in turn, and takes her place on the nest. The young birds are driven away as soon as they are able toprovide for themselves. If taken young, the Raven is easily domesticated, and becomes very tame and familiar,imitating different sounds correctly, and has often been taught to pronounce a variety of words distinctly.They are also noted for carrying away and hiding pieces of polished metal. The whole of the plumage is black, the upper part glossed with blue; feathers on the throat narrow andpointed ; tail rounded at the end; beak, legs and toes black ; claws black, strong and curved. Our figure represents an adult bird, one fourth less than the natural size.
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CARRION CROWo Corvus corone, fZvn<nJ CARRION CROW. Corvus Corone, Linn.La Corneille noir. We are induced to believe that the range of habitat of this well-known species is not so extensive as isgenerally supposed, but that most of the birds received from distant countries, although very similar, arespecifically distinct not only from the Carrion Crow of Europe but also from each other, and that althoughthese differences are not apparent to the casual observer, they will be found on a critical examination to besufficiently important. The Carrion Crow is very generally distributed over the British Islands, where it is a permanent resident;it also appears to be equally dispersed over the western portion of the European continent, but is rarely foundso far east as Hungary and many parts of Austria. In its habits, manners, and general economy the CarrionCrow is nearly allied to the Raven; like that bird it wanders about in pairs, evincing the greatest wariness ofdisposition and shyness

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