1. TRTPANOCORAX. 9 



Key to the Species. 



a. Forehead, lores, and throat bare frugilequs, p. 9. 



b. Forehead and lores only bare, throat feathered 'pakin'ator, p. 10. 



1. Trypanocorax frugilegus. 



La Corneille moissoneuse, Bris.f. Orn. ii. p. 1(3. 



Corvus fru;i-ilegu9, Linn. S. N. i. p. lo6; Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. 



p. 110 ; Nnitm. Vof/. Deiitschl. ii. pi. S-S ; Roiix, Orn. Prov. pi. 1-32 ; 



Werner, Atlas, Omnivores, pi. 5; Gould, B. Eur. iii. pi. 24; 



Macgill. Brit. B. i. p. 53-5 ; Yarr. Brit. B. ii. p. 91 ; Schleyel iS,- 



Susem. Vof/cl Eur. ii. t. 3. fig. 2; KjWrb. Orn. Dan. pi. 11. fi'g. 2; 



(rrm/, Gen. B. ii. p. 31.o ; Nordm. in Demid. Vai/. Buss. Merid. iii. 



p. 121; Riipi). S'l/sf. Uebers. p. 74; Bp. Consp. i. p. .384 ; H'or.'tf. ^- 



Moore, Cat. B. Mii^. E.I. Co. ii. p. 557 ; Hchleqel, Voq. Nederl. 



pi. 1.39 ; id. Bier. Nederl. pi. xiii. figs. 4, 5 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. 



tab. 28. figs. 7, 8; Smidev. Snensk. For/l. pi. 20. fig. 3; Schler/el, 



Bijdr. Dierk. 4to, ii. art. Corvus, p. 11, pi. 1. fig. 16; Jauh. ^■ 



Barth. Lnpomm. Rich. Orn. p. !)4; Lindenn. Vog. Griechenl. 



p. 71 : Fih'ppi, Viagg. Pers. p. 350; Jerd. B. Lid. ii. p. .302; Gould, 



B. G. Brit. iii. pi. 60; Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 26; Deql. 



8r Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 201; Doderl. Avif. Sicil. p. 53; Hexigl. 



Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 493 ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 12 ; Salvad. Faun. 



Ifal Uec. p. 171; Hume, Ibis, 1871, p. 404 ; Shelleg, B. Eggpt, 



p. 159 ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 63 ; Dresser, B. Eur. pt. xxxv. ; 



Irby, B. Gihr. p. 127 ; Scully, S. F. 1876, p. 156 ; Blanf. East. 



Persia, p. 263. 

 Le Freux, 3Ionfb. PI. Enl. iii. pi. 484. 

 La Corneille, Month, t. c. pi. 483. 

 Coloeus frugilegus, Kaup, Natiirl. Sgst. p. 114. 

 Corvus agrorum, Brehm, VUg. Deuisc/d. p. 170, 

 Corvus grauorum, Brehm, t. c. p. 171. 

 Corvus advena, Brehm, t. c. p. 171. 

 Corvus agricola, Tristr. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 444 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 12. 

 Trypanocorax frugilegus, Loche, Expl. Sci. Alger. Ois. i. p. 113; 



Sundev. MetA. Av. Tent. p. 43. 



Adult male. (Sweden, May 9, 1870.) Above glossy purplish 

 black, the head and neck rich purple, with a slight greenish shade 

 over the eyes, on tbe sides of the crown, and on the ear-coverts ; 

 forehead, lores, fore part of cheeks, and throat bare ; wings dull 

 brown, the least wing-coverts purple like the back, the remainder 

 of the coverts and the quills with a slight gloss of duU green, and 

 remains of purple on the secondaries ; tail dull greenish black, 

 glossed with purple near the base ; throat purplish black, with 

 greyish bases to the feathers, rather more blue in shade than the 

 sides of the neck ; rest of under surface dull puq^lish black, not so 

 glossy as the back ; bill and feet black ; iris blackish brown. Total 

 length 17 inches, culmen 2-2.5, wing 12-4, tail 7'5, tarsus 2-2. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 16 inches, cul- 

 men 2-2, wing 12-2, tail 7*4, tarsus 2-1. 



Winter i-)linnafie. Very much more brilliant than the breeding- 

 dress, which quickly loses much of its gloss. 



TOt. III. c 



