Plate CI. Male.
Feathers of the fore neck lanceolate and elongated; tail much rounded;
plumage deep black, glossed with blue and purplish-blue, the lower
parts with green. Young with the feathers of the throat oblong, the
upper parts less glossy, the lower dull greyish-black.
_Male_, 26, 50.
From the Highlands of South Carolina, northward to the Polar Seas.
Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio, Canada. Rocky Mountains and Columbia River.
Rather common in some parts.
Raven, Corvus Corax, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. ix. p. 136.
Corvus Corax, Bonap. Syn. p. 56.
Corvus Corax, Raven, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p.
290.
Raven, Corvus Corax, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 202.
Raven, Corvus Corax, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p. 1; v. v. p.
476.