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Crow

 

Any of various large, usually entirely black, oscine birds; specifically the American species, which is gregarious and feeds on grains, and the common European species also called the carrion crow.

 

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YMS-215 (q.v.) was reclassified AMS-7 on 17 February 1947 and named Crow the following day.