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  • Under the name Corvus corone cornix, they had long been considered a subspecies of carrion crows, but were recently elevated to species level as Corvus cornix.

    Archive 2008-10-01 AYDIN 2008

  • A serious problem is introduction of crow family (Corvidae) birds such as f rook (Corvus frugilegus) and hooded crow (Corvus corone cornix), especially along forest shelter belts.

    Kazakh steppe 2008

  • Under the name Corvus corone cornix, they had long been considered a subspecies of carrion crows, but were recently elevated to species level as Corvus cornix.

    Hooded crows in Istanbul AYDIN 2008

  • Species that do not cross the river from the west include: Gallinago megala, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, Fringilla coelebs, Luscinia luscinia, Corvus corone cornix.

    East Siberian taiga 2008

  • It may possibly be traced to the same root as that of a cognate species, the _cornix frugivora;

    Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850 Various

  • But _solus_ is shown to be correct by the passage Ovid is here imitating, Virgil _G_ I 388-89 'tum cornix plena pluuiam uocat improba uoce/et _sola_ in sicca secum _spatiatur harena_'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Nix est alba, ergo cornix est fons vitae alba, and one prattles about the noun; was it first, or the verb; the other, whether the sea was first or the springs; again, another tries to revive obsolete vocabularies which, because they were once used and approved by some old writer, must now be exalted to the stars.

    The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the Second An Ethical Poem Giordano Bruno 1574

  • miluus et pluuiae graculus auctor aquae; uiuit et armiferae cornix inuisa Mineruae, 35

    The Dead Parrot Ovid 1912

  • quod quondam bene fructuosa malus autumnis sterilis duobus adstem? non me praegrauat, ut putas, senectus, nec sum grandine uerberata dura, 5 nec gemmas modo germine exeuntis seri frigoris ustulauit aura, nec uenti pluuiaeue siccitasue, quod de se quererer, malum dederunt; non sturnus mihi gracculusue raptor10 aut cornix anus aut aquosus anser aut coruus nocuit siticulosus: sed quod carmina pessimi poetae ramis sustineo laboriosis.

    The Complaint of the Garden God Anonymous 1912

  • Save your master: mind you don’t do the same as other servants that use their wily wits to gull him. unde sumam? quem intervortam? quo hanc celocem conferam? impetritum, inauguratumst quovis admittunt aves, picus et cornix ab laeva, corvos parra ab dextera 260 consuadent; certum herclest vostram consequi sententiam.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

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