NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF AFRICA 



TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF LE VAILLANT. 



WHITE NECKED RAVEN. (Corvus albicollis, LATHAM.) 



Corbivau, Levaill. Ois. d'Afrique, ii. p. 1. pi. 30; Corvus albicollis, Lath. Index 

 Orn. i. 151 ; Daud. ii. 227; Corvus_Vulturinus, Shaw's Zool. vii. 343; Corvus 

 Torquatus, Spalowsk, Voy. iii. 1. 10 ; South Sea Raven, Latham, Gen. Synops. 

 Sup. 75; Id. Sup. ii. 137 ; Bruce, Travels, App. p. 152; White-necked Raven, 

 Latham, Gen. Hist. iii. p. 8 ; Drapiez, Diet. Class, iv. 464. 



THE white-necked Raven is an African bird, similar to the common 

 raven in the shape of its body, feet, and toes, the middle one of which 

 is united by a membrane to the inner toe, as far as the first joint, and 

 the feathers at the base of the bill are turned forward and cover the 

 nostrils ; but it differs very much from the raven in its bill, the length 



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