22 COKVID^. 



purple ; the plumes of the throat lanceolate, but lax in texture ; nape, 

 hinder neck all round, and upper part of mantle white, the lower 

 plumes of the latter adjoining the back white, more or less shaded 

 with black towards the tip, the latter colour somewhat predomi- 

 nating ; chest white, forming a crescentic band, some of the feathers 

 mcsially streaked or shaded with glossy black ; bill and legs black. 

 Total length li) inches, culmen 2-45, wing 14-1, tail 8-6, tarsus 2*5. 

 Ohs. Verj' great difference in size exists in this species. None of 

 the Museum specimens have the sexes or exact localities indicated, 

 so that I am unable to say whether the ditferenco is sexual or 

 whether there are two races of the bird. That the dimensions vary 

 considerably will be seen from the following list. 



Total 



length. Culmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 



in. in. in. in. in. 



1. Chinti (type oi C. pectoroHs) . . 17-0 2-25 11 -.5 7-5 2-3 



2. China (Beeves) 17-0 2S 12-1 7-3 2-45 



3. Fokien 19-0 2-3 13-9 8-7 2-G5 



4. China (Blakiston) 19-0 2-45 14-1 8-6 2-5 



5. China (Blahidon) 17-0 2-35 13-0 77 2-55 



6. China (Blaldston) 17-5 2-4 12-8 7-8 2-5 



Yomig. Dusky black, without any gloss underneath ; wings and 

 tail as in adult ; the white mantle and pectoral patch obscured by 

 dusky tips to many of the feathers, some of the chest-plumes mesi- 

 ally washed with dusky blackish. 



Hah. China. 



a. Ad. sk. China. Zoological Society. (Ty^^eoi C.pectoralis.) 



b. Ad. sk. China. J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Juv. sk. China. Secretary of State for India. ( Cf. Ilorsf. & 



Moore, Cat. p. 557, spec, a.) 



d. e,f. Ai. sk. China. Capt. Blakiston [C.]. 

 ff. Ad. sk. Fokien. J. Gould, Esq. 



7. Corvus scapnlatus. 



Corneille du S(5negal, Month. PI. Enl. iii. pi. 327. 



Corvus comix, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 20 (nee L.). 



La Corneille a scapulaire blanc, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. ii. p. 14, pi. 53 ; 



Sundev. Crit. om Levaill. p. 20. 

 Corvus scapulatus, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 232 ; Wagler, Syst. Av. Corvus, 



sp. 8 ; Less. Traite, p. 328 ; Bilpp. Syst. Uehers. p. 75 ; Gray, Gen. 



B. ii. p. 315; Bp. Consp. i. p. 386; Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 231 ; 



Schl. Bijdr. Dierk. Amsterd. fol. art. Corvus, p. 2; Kirk, Lhis, 



1864, p. 321 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 168 ; Schl. Mm. P.-B. Coraces, 



p. 3; Gray, Hatid-l. B. ii. p. 13; Bocaqe, Jorn. Lish. 1870, p. 13; 



Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 256 ; Blanf. Geol. Sf Zool. Abyss, p. 393 ; 



Heuql. Om. N.O.-Afr. p. 001 ; Cab. in Von dcr Decken Reis. iii. 



p. 33 ; Finsch ^ Hartl. Voy. Ostafr. p. 374 ; Shar^w, Cat. Afr. B. 



p. 57 ; Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 154 ; Antin. 8f Salvad. 



Viaqq. Bogos, p. 128 ; Sharpe 6r Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. 



p. 46. 

 Corvus scapidaris, var. sethiops. Hemp-. <§• Ehr. Si/nib. Phys. fol. z. 

 Corvus dauricus, Desj. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 45. 



