It is much larger than the above, has a
stronger bill, and a dark breast. This bird is good eating.
65. CINCLORAMPHUS RUFESCENS.--Singing Lark.
This is also a good songster.
66. CORCORX LEUCOPTERUS.--White-winged Chough.
This bird has a dirty black plumage, excepting a white bar across the
wings. It is generally seen in groups of six or seven, flying from tree
to tree, and is widely distributed all over the continent.
67. CORVUS CORONOIDES, VIG. AND HORSF. White-eyed Crow.
This bird approaches somewhat to the raven. Its plumage is black and
glossy, its neck feathers like a cock's hackle, and the iris white, the
latter peculiarity giving it a singular appearance. Many of these birds
remained with us at the Depot after we had been deserted by most of the
other kinds, and served to fatten an old native who had visited the camp,
on whose condition they worked a perfect miracle. I suppose indeed that
there never was such an instance of an individual becoming absolutely fat
in so short a time, from a state of extreme emaciation, as in that old
and singular savage, from eating the crows that were shot for him, and
which constituted his chief, I might say, his only food.
68. POMATORHINUS SUPERCILIOSUS.
A bird that frequented the cypress and pine forests; running along the
branches of the trees like rats, and chasing each other from one to the
other.
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