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 CORVUS (kôr'-vus)—THE CROW. (Face South.)

—A line drawn from the Bee Hive, in ../Cancer/, through Regulus in ../Leo/, and prolonged about 40 degrees, ends near the conspicuous quadrilateral which distinguishes Corvus. The brightest star in this region of the sky is Spica in ../Virgo/. It lies about 10 degrees northeast of Algorab.

(ζ) is a double star for an opera-glass. A faint pair of stars lie close below and to the west of (β). The Crow is represented as standing on, and pecking at, the coils of ../Hydra/. The star Al Chiba is in the Crow's bill.

Corvus was known as the Raven in Chaucer's time. 22