262 Mr. Vicors’s and Dr. Hors¥1Eup’s Description of the 
Rostrum sublongum vix glabrum. Longitudo corporis, 22 ; ale 
a carpo ad remigem tertiam, 14; caude, 9; rostri, 2-3, ; 
tarsi, 2-3. 
This bird has a very general resemblance to our common 
species C. corone. It is to be distinguished chiefly by its supe- 
rior size, its length being twenty-two inches, while that of the 
European species is eighteen inches*. The bill also differs. In 
our bird this member is much more elongated in proportion to 
its size; the culmen is less rounded and arched, and the gonys of 
the under mandible less prominent: it is also less smooth and 
glossy than in C. corone. — ex gie | 
.. In Mr. Caley's MSS. are the following remarks. * This bird 
is gregarious and not to be met with at all times. Its native 
name is Wa gan.—Moowattin, a native follower of mine, tells me 
that it makes its nest like the Ca'ruck (Cr. tibicen), but that he 
never met with more than one nest, which was in a Coray'bo tree, 
at the Devil's Back, about four miles from Prospect Hill. He 
and several other natives at first took it to be a Curriaygun's 
(Scythrops) nest. There were two young ones in it, and the 
broken shells of two eggs, which were quite black. There was 
a quantity of dung under the tree.— 
** I have observed that the croak of this bird is not so hoarse as 
that of C. corone. ‘This was also remarked by the same native 
when with me in this country (England) on his hearing a Crow 
one morning near Fulham.—The people in the colony say that 
it will devour chickens: this I rather doubt."—In a subsequent 
Note Mr. Caley says, that he remembers once or twice meeting 
with a single bird of this species; and once more particularly in 
the month of November 1804, when in the roughest part of the 
mountains, he observed for several days a pair of them flying 
* Montague, Ornith. Dict.—Art, “ Crow-carrion." 
about. 
