208 Lieut.-Colonel Harpwıcke’s Description of 
Corvus LEUCOLOPHUS. 
p The white crowned Crow. 
I. cristatus cinereo-fuscus, capite collo pectoreque niveis, loris 
x temporibusque atris. 
Tan. XV. 
It js. about the size of a jackdaw; in length from tip of the 
bill to the end of the tail eleven inches three quarters. - 
Bill sub-conical, the upper mandible convex, both of equal 
Eng with sharp edges; in Enge one inch three-eighths, 
| h igh, with short stif Wack feathers procumbent 
. on their margins, but not covering them: near the angles 
of the mouth a few long bristly feathers projecting forward. 
Plumage of the head, neck, throat and breast a beautiful white; 
the feathers of the head rising from the front into a fine 
crest, and gently bending backwards: the body, wings 
and tail of uniform ferruginous brown, excepting a narrow 
line of a lighter brown, which terminates the white towards 
the body : from the nasal apertures a black line, of about 
half an inch in breadth, of short feathers extends backwards 
as far as the auricles, including the eye, and passing in a 
narrow arched margin over it. — 
The tail nearly the length. v the body, — m equal, and 
rounded at their ends; = ă i 
Legs cinereous ; claws black, rong: and Bio bent, the posterior 
claw largest. ec 3 | 
This bird is a native of the forests in the IlnDhbtains above 
Hurdwar, and noticed in my Journey to Sireenagur 1 in 1796. 
They are found in numbers from twenty to fifty. =. 
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