Plate CLVI. Male.
Feathers of the head and neck oval and blended; fourth quill longest;
general colour black, with purplish-blue reflections; the hind parts
of the neck tinged with purplish-brown; the lower parts less glossy.
Young of a rather dull brownish-black, with the blue and purple
reflections much less brilliant.
_Male_, 18, 38.
Generally distributed from the Gulf of Mexico to Columbia River;
throughout the interior, and along the coast, northward to Lat. 55°.
Congregates in immense numbers in the Southern and Western States
during winter.
Crow, Corvus Corone, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iv. p. 79.
Cervus Corone, Bonap. Syn. p. 56.
Cervus Corone, Crow, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p.
291.
Crow, Corvus Corone, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 209.
American Crow, Corvus Americanus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p.
317; v. v. p. 477.