Excerpt from The Birds of Calcutta There Is nothing to oh'oose in the matter of gloss and richnesjs OI plumage between the male and female Crows, but the former' s bigger head and bill will distinguish him easily if both are seen together the difference In feature is hardly marked enough to sex any Crow by itself. Young Crows when they leave the nest have light blue eyes and pink mouths, but they do not look innocent on that account - rather, with their duller, shabbier plum age, more blackguardly than their dark-eyed, black mawed parents; the Old Crow being, if anything, rather blacker inside than out, as far as one can see When he opens his mouth to caw. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.