12 conviD;r:. 



ground is ti very palo puro bluish grocn, in others it is dingier and 

 greener. 7\11 are bhAclied, speckled, and streaked more or less 

 with somewhat pale sepia markings ; but in some the spots and 

 specks are a darker brown and, as a rule, M'ell defined, and there 

 is very liltle sireaking, wliile in others the brown is pale and 

 muddy, the markings ill-defined, and nearly the whoh; surface of 

 Ihe egg is freckled over with smudgy streaks. Som(itimes the 

 markings are most nunxirous at the larg(! end, sometimes at the 

 small ; no two eggs are exactly alike, and yet Ihey have; so strong 

 a i'amily I'csemblancetliai there is no possibility of mistaking llu^m, 

 (Generally tli(; markings as a whole are k.'ss bold, and the general 

 colour of a large body of lliem laid together is Inkier and brighter 

 ilian that of a similar drawer-full of Jtavens' eggs. Ah a whole, 

 loo, they are more glossy. 1 have one egg before me bright blue 

 and almost as glossy as a Mynah's, tliickly blolched and speckled 

 at the broad end, and tliinly spotted elsewhere with olive-green, 

 l)lackish-brown, and pale purple. Another egg, a pale pure blue, 

 is s|)otl(!SS, except at th(! lai-ge end, where Ihens is a conspicuous 

 cap of olive-brown and olive-green spots and S])eckles, and there 

 are numerous other abnormal varieti(;s which 1 have not observed 

 amongst the ]^avens. 



On the wliole the eggs do no/, vary mu(;li in size; out of one 

 hundiHid and nin(!ty-S(fV(Oi, one hundred and ninety-five varied 

 between l-^'S and f -05 in hnigtli, aiul 0-98 and 1-I5 in breadth. 

 One (!gg measures only l/ii in length, and one is only 0-(K> in 

 breadth ; but the average of the whole is 1 -44 by I'OB. 



8. Corvus insolens, Hume. The Burmese J/ousc-Crovj. 

 Corvus insolens, Hume ; Hume, Cat. no. G03 bis. 



The Burmese llouse-Crow breeds pretty well over the whole of 

 Burma. 



Ml'. Oat(!s, wi'iting from Pegu, says : — " Nesting operations are 

 commenced about the 20th March. The nest and (!ggs require no 

 separate dciscription, for both a|)|)(!ar to be similai- to th(js(! of 

 (J. sjj/cudens." 



When large series of tlu! eggs of both these; speci(!s are coni- 

 par(,'(l, thosi! of tlu; Uurmese Ci'ow strike one .'is ((vertij/in;/ some- 

 what brighter coIouhmI, otli(!rvvis(! they ar(3 precisely alike and need 

 no S(4)arat(3 description. 



y. Corvus monedula, Linn. The Jackdaw. 



Colacus moiicdiila (Liini.), .Tenl. />'. hid, \'\, p. .302. 



Corvus iiioiicdiihi,, Linn., JIvmc, ]i()i(</lt ])r(ifl N. cV TJ. no. (!(i/5. 



J only know positively (jf Jackdaws breeding in one dislrict 

 within our limits, viz. (Jashmerc!; but 1 have; se(;n it in the hills in 

 summcir, as far east as tin; Valley of the J}eas, and it must br(;ed 

 everywhere i]i suitable localities bet ween the two. 



