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the large end. Measures only 1-25 by 1-2. Neither in shape, 

 size, nor colour is it like a Corby's egg ; but it is not a Koel's, or 

 that of any of our parasitic Cuckoos, and I have seen at home similar 

 pale eggs of the Eook, Hooded Crow, Carrion-Crow, and Eaven. 



" Bareilly, May lOth. — Three fresh eggs in large nest on a 

 mango-tree. Nest as usual, but lined with an immense quantity 

 of horsehair. We brought this home and weighed it : it weighed 

 six ounces, and horsehair is very light." 



Major C. T. Bingham wi'ites : — 



" This Crow, so common at Allahabad, is very scarce here at 

 Delhi. In fact I have only seen one pair. 



" At Allahabad it lays in February and March. I have, how- 

 ever, only found one nest, a rather loose structure of twigs and a 

 few thick branches with rather a deep depression in the centre. It 

 was placed on the very crown of a high toddy palm {Borassus 

 Jlahelliformis), and was unlined save for a wad of human hair, on 

 which the eggs, two in number, lay ; these I found hard-set (on 

 the 13th March); in colour they were a pale greenish blue, boldly 

 blotched, spotted, and speckled with brown," 



Colonel Butler has furnished me with the following note on the 

 breeding of the Jungle-Crow : — 



"Belgaum, 12th March, 1880. — A nest containing four fresh 

 eggs. It consisted of a loose structure of sticks lined with hair 

 and leaves, and was placed at the top of and in the centre of a 

 green-foliaged tree in a well-concealed situation about 30 feet 

 from the ground. 18th March : Two nests, each containing three 

 slightly incubated eggs ; one of the nests was quite low down in 

 the centre of an 'arbor vita)' about 12 feet from the ground. 

 31st March : Another nest containing four slightly incubated eggs. 

 Some of the latter nests were very solidly built, and not so well 

 concealed. 11th April : Two more nests, containing five incubated 

 and three slightly incubated eggs respectively; and on the 14th 

 April a nest containing four slightly incubated eggs. These birds, 

 when the eggs are at all incubated, often sit very close, especially 

 if the nest is in an open situation, and in many instances I have 

 thrown several stones at the nest, and made as much row as I 

 could below without driving the old bird off, and I have seen my 

 nest-seeker within a few yards of the nest after climbing the tree 

 before the old bird flew off. On the 2nth of April I found two 

 more nests, one containing four young birds just hatched, the other 

 three fresh eggs. On the 27th another nest contaim'ng three fresh 

 eggs, and on the 28th a nest of three fresh eggs. On tlie 5t-h May 

 two more nests containing four fresh and four incubated eggs 

 respectively." 



" In \\\Q Nilghiris," writes Mr. Davison, " the Corby buikls a 

 coarse nest of twigs, lined with cocoanut-fibrc or dry grass high 

 up in some densely-foliaged tree. The eggs are usually four, often 

 five, in number. The birds lay in April and May." 



Miss Cockburn again says : — " They build like all Crows on large 

 trees merely by laying a few sticks together on some strong branch, 



