Letter: Rooks and ravens

Published 4 July 1998

From Des Brazil

I enjoyed your Inside Science feature “The Species Enigma”,
13 June. However,
the author is mistaken if he thinks that Corvus frugilegus is the
raven. It is in fact the rook, the raven being Corvus corax.

Dublin

Issue no. 2141 published 4 July 1998

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