Crow

Corvid a. This family includes also JAYS (q.v.), Magpies, etc. The true crows are large, with long wings, short tail, conical bills, black plumage, rapacious, and cunning. The Raven, the European Carrion Crow and Chough are examples. (American Carrion Crow is a Vulture.) Our Common Crow nests in trees in March and by June a second brood have been hatched. Notorious as eating seed corn, they are mainly feeders on grubs turned up by plow; they will not touch corn washed in coal tar. The American Blackbird ( Quiscalus ) is a crow. See DEN TIROS TRES. IMG:content-1041.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1042.png:[blocks in formation]