corvus

• Because I am, from my heart, sorry that by a foolish fit of inconsideration I should have given pain for a minute to you, towards whom, on every account, I would rather soften and 'sleeken every word as to a bird and, not such a bird as my black self that go screeching about the world for 'dead horse'--corvus (picus)--mirandola!) —  The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
• I shot that bird to-day, I'll confess now, Frau Barbara; my corvus is a wretched crow I thought so," cried the widow. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
• The most persistent enemy of the Crow, however, is the martin, which attacks it on the wing with unfaltering Pluck, and compels it to show the White Feather This variety of the genus corvus was well known to the ancients. —  Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 25, September 17, 1870
• It's a short-billed snipe, a corvus, a real corvus. " —  The Burgomaster's Wife — Volume 05
• "It's a corvus, as I said. —  The Burgomaster's Wife — Volume 05

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