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defined but encroaches upon the white of the lower parts where it 

 becomes fuscous-black; the white collar is bordered narrowly pos- 

 teriorly with fuscous; there is a tuft of elongate white feathers, 

 tipped with fuscous, on the flanks; the thighs are black like the 

 back; and there are other slight discrepancies. 



Seen ouly about patches of isolated woods or along the edge of heavy forest. 

 Its call is very much like that of a jay, not at all like Corvus. Nest a structure 

 somewhat like that of a crow, placed high in a tall tree at the border of a 

 clearing, and composed of twigs, etc. Eyes hazel brown. Locally known as 

 koki (Pinedapa).— H. C. R. 



As Walden^ has clearly shown that Gazzola Bonaparte can not be 

 used for this genus and as no one has apparently proposed a substi- 

 tute, I have reluctantly renamed it Nesocorax? 



202. CORVUS ENCA Horsfield. subspecies? 



A good series of both sexes and young from : Tandjong Tango, 

 August 28, 1914; Soemalata, September 3-7, and November 3, 1914; 

 Kwandang, September 20, 1914 ; Paleleh, November 9, 1914 ; Boesak, 

 November 16, 1914; Kapas Bay, November 18-22, 1914; Toli Toli, 

 November 25-December 20, 1914; Tandjong Penjoe, February 17- 

 27, 1915; Likoepang, January 16-March 11, 1916; Ayermadidi, April 

 4-May 16, 1916; Batoe Hangoes Baroe, June 11, 1916; Manembo 

 Nembo, June 22, 1916 ; Temboan, July 20, 1916 ; Parigi, September 

 9-10, 1916; Toboli, October 12-27, 1916; Tinomboe, December 15, 

 1916; Koelawi, January 6-7, 1917; Winatoe, January 10, 1917; 

 Rano Lindoe, March 9, 1917 ; Gimpoe, August 5, 1917 ; Toeare, Bada, 

 October 3, 1917; Pinedapa, February 14, 1918. 



The above large series of crows shows quite a little individual 

 variation in size. I have been able to compare them with only two 

 Javan specimens (a male and female), and while the latter seem to 

 have the bill proportionately slenderer and less arched, the series 

 is too unequal to form any definite opinion, except that I believe 

 with Meyer and Wiglesworth ^ that they are hardly the same. Even 

 if they should prove to be racially separable, the proper name could 

 only be determined by an examination of Briiggemann's types of 

 the several species described by him from Celebes. 



Birds from the north end of Celebes average slightly larger than 

 those from the north-central part, but the differences are not great 

 enough to warrant recognition by name. 



Generally common ; it seems to prefer coconut groves. — H. C. R. 



'Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. 8, 1872, p. 74. 



»Auk, vol. 38, 1921, p. 458. 



3 Birds of Celebes, vol. 2, 1898, p. 581. 



