278 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



CORVUS NASICUS Temminck. 

 CUBAN CROW. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Entire!}^ black, the plumage with a dull violet 

 gloss; feathers of head, neck, and body gray basally; rictal and post- 

 ocular regions naked; nasal plumes short, inclined upward terminalh% 

 exposing the nostrils; bill black, becoming paler (more or less horn- 

 colored) terminally; iris brown; legs and feet black. 



Adult male.- — Length (mounted specimen and skin), 406.5-419.5 

 (413); wing, 284.5-286(285); tail, 165.5-174(169.5); exposed culmen, 

 58-58.5 (58); depth of bill at nostrils, 21-21.5 (21); tarsus, 53.5-58 (55); 

 middle toe, 38.5-40.5 (39.5). 



Adult female. — Length (mounted specimen), 406.5; wing, 279.5; tail, 

 165.5; exposed culmen, 58; depth of bill at nostrils, 20; tarsus, 53.5; 

 middle toe, 37.5. 



Island of Cuba, Greater Antilles. 



Corvus nasicus Temminck, PI. Col., ii, 1838, pi. 413 (type in coll. Leyden Mus. ). — 

 Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307. — Gundlach, Repert. Fisico- 

 Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 290; Journ. fiirOrn., 1874, 137.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 

 229; Birds W. I., 1889, 116; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 14, 110, 146 (Cuba; Isle 

 of Pines; Grand Caieos, Bahamas). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 iv, 1892, 303 (San Pablo, Cuba; notes). 



Clorvus'] nasicus Wagler, Isis, 1829, 749. — Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 315. — 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 234. — Ridgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 363. 



ICori'us'] nasicus Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 14. 



Microcorax nasicus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 1877, 49 (Culpa). 



Corvus americanus (not of Audubon) LE>iBEYE, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 65. 



Clorvus} americanus Gas A-Nis, Mus. Hein., i, 1851, 231, excl. syn. (Cuba). 



Corvus jamaicenm (not of Gmelin) Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., vi, 1853, 316 

 (Cuba); 1859, 296 (do.) ; 1861, 414 (do.).— Cabanis, Journ. fiirOrn., 1856, 16 

 (Cuba). — Thieneman, Journ. fiir Orn., 1857, 152 (Cuba). 



Corvus ossifragus (not of Wilson) Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, 1867, 32, 

 excl. syn. part (Cuba). 



CORVUS LEUCOGNAPHALUS LEUCOGNAPHALUS Daudin. 



PORTO RICAN CROW. 



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Adults {sexes alike). — Entire plumage black, the wings and tail with 

 a violet gloss; feathers of the neck and body pure white at base, this 

 white occupying the basal half or more of the feathers of the hind- 

 neck, upper back, breast, sides, abdomen, and flanks; bill, legs, and 

 feet black; iris red?; length (skins), 439.5-457.5 (447.5); wing, 300- 

 321.5 (308.5); tail, 189.5-203.5 (195); exposed culmen, 53.5-58 (55); 

 depth of bill at nostrils, 19-22.5 (21.5); tarsus, 51.5-55.5 (53.5); mid- 

 dle toe, 38.5-40.5 (40). « 



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