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englanti A raven or crow (typically Corvus corax).
1825, Basil Hall, journal entry quoted in 1837, (w), J. G. Lockhart (editor), Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., in The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 7, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=CB5XAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA417&dq=%22corbie%22%7C%22corbies%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=igawU6OREIPGkAX5yoDABA&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22corbie%22%7C%22corbies%22&f=false page 417,
From parrots we got to corbies, or ravens, and he told us with infinite humour a story of a certain tame bird of this description, whose constant delight was to do mischief, and to plague all mankind and beastkind.
1899, (w), The Moor-song, Grey Weather, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6chI6yyZLrYC&pg=PA133&dq=%22corbie%22%7C%22corbies%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fRywU-WCBcuQkwXQ6oDoAg&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22corbie%22%7C%22corbies%22&f=false page 133,
And with them were some lang-gowned men who kenned the stars and would come out o' nights to talk to the deer and the corbies in their ain tongue.
1963, John Harrington Cox (editor), 6: The Three Ravens (Child, No. 26), Folk-Songs of the South, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=8mUl8oDXyroC&pg=PA31&dq=%22corbie%22%7C%22corbies%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YBGwU_eDE4mCkwXw9ICQCA&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22corbie%22%7C%22corbies%22&f=false page 31,
In the "Twa Corbies" of Child it is the knight that is slain and one corbie is to sit on his "hause-bane" and the other is to pick out his eyes. In the West Virginia variants it is the horse that is slain, whose eyes the crows are going to pluck out.
Either of two moth species of genus (taxlink), whose larvae feed on grasses, especially (taxlink).
2007, J. B. Kirkpatrick, Chapter 5: Sheep and nature on the run country, Jamie Kirkpatrick, Kerry Bridle (editors), People, Sheep and Nature Conservation: The Tasmanian Experience, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=aWJFXW0dTgkC&pg=PA158&dq=%22corbie%22%7C%22corbies%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fRywU-WCBcuQkwXQ6oDoAg&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22corbie%22%7C%22corbies%22&f=false page 158,
The eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus), a species believed to be extinct on mainland Australia, is common in the run and front country, where it consumes corbie grubs and cockchafers, among slightly larger prey and carrion.
raven; (sometimes also) carrion crow, rook
1817, (w), Rob Roy, II.1:
The priests and the Irish officers, and thae papist cattle that hae been sodgering abroad, because they durstna bide at hame, are a' fleeing thick in Northumberland e'enow; and thae corbies dinna gather without they smell carrion.

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