house crow

noun

a black and gray crow, Corvus splendens, of India.

Words nearby house crow

house brand, house call, house church, house counsel, house cricket, house crow, house detective, house dick, house factor, house finch, house flag

Example sentences from the Web for house crow

  • The explanation is, of course, that the house-crow absorbs all the attention that man has to bestow upon the sable-plumaged tribe.

    Birds of the Plains |Douglas Dewar

  • The caw of the house-crow is replaced by the deeper note of the corby.

    Birds of the Indian Hills |Douglas Dewar

  • Chief of these is that arch-villain Corvus splendens—the Indian house-crow.

    A Bird Calendar for Northern India |Douglas Dewar

  • The house-sparrow, like the house-crow, is a bird of the plains rather than of the hills.

    Birds of the Indian Hills |Douglas Dewar