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XV. Description of the Corvus leucolophus, or white crowned 
Crow of India, in a Letter to Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq. 
F. R.S. and A.S. V.P.L.S. By Lieut-Colonel Thomas Hard- 
wicke, F. L.S. ; | 
—  — Read December 1, 1812. 
Sin, = ! = 
Ix moments of leisure I occasionally give my attention to the 
collection of drawings which I formed during a long residence in 
the East Indies ; and as I am induced to believe some subjects 
among them belonging to the animal creation are not to be 
found described in any publication extant, which has yet fallen 
under my observation, I shall, with permission, 
when I meet 
with such as bear the marks of novelty, offer them to the Society 
for examination, and to be disposed of according to its opinion 
and judgement. ! | | 
The subject I now have the honour to submit to the Society 
.is a bird of the genus Corvus. Iu referring it to this genus, how- 
ever, it is with deference to higher authority, and I believe in 
coincidence with the opinion of the ablest living Ornithologist, 
Dr. Latham. : ee 
The first inspection of the figure may suggest the propriety of 
calling this bird = | 
Corvus 
