10 CORVIDJE. 



Young. Much more dusky than the adults, without the purple 

 gloss showing to any great extent ; wings black, shining, with ]nirple 

 on the secondaries and with green near the edge of the wings ; lores, 

 nasal bristles, sides of face, and throat glossy black ; under surface 

 of body dusky black : bill black, flesh-coloured at base. 



Hah. The whole of Europe, ranging into Central Asia and North- 

 western India. 



Purchased. 



Purchased. 



J. H. Giu-ney, Jun.,Esq. 

 [P.]. 



IMr. J. Baker [P.]. 



Purchased. 



Maj.-Gen. Warell [P.]. 



E. Shellev; Esq. [P.]. 



E. Shelley, Esq. [P.]. 



Col. Montagu [P.]. 



A. B.Brooke, Esq: [C.]. 



Purchased. 



Purchased. 



Pui'chased. 



Brussels Museum [P.]. 



Brussels Museum [P.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.J. 



J. Gould, Esq. 

 J. Gould, Esq. 

 Cauon Tristram [C.]. 

 Canon Tristram [C.]. 

 Secretary of State for 



India [P.]. 

 Euphrates Exped. [C.]. 



Capt. Blackiston [C.]*. 



Dr. Gunther [C.]. 



a. Ad. sk. 

 h, c. Juv. sk. 

 d. $ ad. sk. 



e,f. Pull. St. 

 (1. .luv. St. 

 h. Var. St. 

 i. Ad. sk. 



A-. Jun. sk. 



/. Var. St. 

 m. S ad. sk. 

 n,o. cJ $ ad. sk, 

 P,q- 6 2 juT. sk, 

 r. 2 juv. sk. 

 s. Ad. sk. 

 t. Juv. sk. 

 ti. Ad. st. 

 V, 10. $ ad. sk. 



X. Ad. sk. 

 y. Ad. sk. 

 s. Ad. sk. 

 «'. Imm. sk. 

 b'. c? ad. sk. 



c'. Juv. sk. 

 (T. Juv. sk. 

 e',/. Ad.sk. 

 g'. Skeleton. 

 h'. Skull. 



England. 

 England. 

 Greatham, Durham, April 17, 



1866; 

 Cambridgeshire. 

 Cambridgeshire. 

 Samborne Park, Hants. 

 Avington Park, Hants, Nov, 



25, 1872. 

 Avington Park, Hants, Nov. 



25, 1872. 

 Devonshire. 



Dunkeld, N.B., May 2, 1870. 

 Skara, Sweden, May 9, 1870. 

 Skane, Sweden, June 22, 1874. 

 Skane, Sweden, April 8, 1874. 

 Belgium, Dec. 8, 1870. 

 Belgium, Dec. 8, 1870. 

 France. 

 Buvukdere, Turkey, Feb. 20, 



1874 {T. Robson). 

 Crimea. 

 Erzeroom. 

 Nazareth. 

 Jerusalem. 

 Mesopotamia (Commander 



Jones). 

 Mesopotamia. 

 Gansaoti-i, Himalayas. 

 [China.] 

 England. 

 Wiirtembersr. 



2. Trypanocorax pastinator. 



Coitus pastinator, Gould, P. Z. S. 1845, p. 1 ; Blyili, J. A. S. B. xv. 

 p. 25 ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 315 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 384 ; Horsf. S,- 

 Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 558 ; Gray, Sand-l. B. ii. p."^12 ; 

 David, K. Arch. 3Ius. vii. Bull. p. 9. 



Corvus frugilegus, Schl. Faun. Jap. p. 80. 



Frugilegus pastinator, Sivhih. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 383. 



Adult (tyi^e of species). General colour above and below purplish 

 black, rather deeper and blacker on the sides of the head ; quills 

 black, glossed with purple on the secondaries and with steel-green 



* I am assured by Sir. WTiitely, from whom we obtained this and many 

 other birds of Captain Blakiston's, that there can be no doubt of its having 

 been received in a consignment of the latter gentleman's, though whether it 

 was actually killed in China of course it is'-difficult to say. 



