O. COLCEFS. 2b 



very distinct white collar across the chest, aU the feathers of which, 

 however, are much mixed with brown. 

 Hah. South Africa. 



a. Ad. St. South Afiica. J. Gould, Esq. 



b. Ad. sk. South Afiica. J. Rocke, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Juv. sk. South Africa. Soutli-Ai'rican Museum. 



d. Ad. sk. I^vsua, Feb. 25th, R. B. Sharps, Esq. 



1866 ( C. J. Anderssoti). 



e. Ad. sk. Kanye, Matabili R. B. Sharps, Esq. 



country {Exton). 



2. Corvultnr crassirostris. 



Corvus crassirostris, RUpp. N. TVirb. p. 19, Taf. viii. ; Schl. Bijd. Dicrl-. 



Aiiist. fol. p. 1 ; id. Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 2 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



ii. p. 14. 

 Corvultiir crassirostris, RUpp. Si/sf. Uehers. p. 75 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 



887 ; Ilorsf. c^ Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. C. ii. p. 552 ; Hcugl. Syst. 



Uebers. p. SO ; Blanf. Geol. iS,- Zuol. Abyss, p. .394. 

 Corvus albicollis, Dcs Murs in Lufebvr. Voy. Abyss. Zool. p. 104 («ec 



Lath.). 

 Archicorax crassirostris. Cab. Mus. Hein. p. 23.3 ; Finsch, Tr. Z. S. 



vii.p. 256; id. 8f Hartl. Vogel Ost-Afr. p. 370; Heiigl. Orn. N.O.- 



Afr. pp. 507, cxxv. 



Adult male. General colour above purplish black, with somewhat 

 of a hoary shade under certain lights ; the wings more or less mixed 

 with brown where the disarranged bases to the coverts or the inner 

 webs of the secondaries show ; head all round, sides of neck, and 

 entire under surface purplish black, the ground-colour of the feathers 

 beiug brown, the circular margins purplish black ; the under wing- 

 coverts rather browner than the breast ; on the hinder neck a large 

 patch of white, occupying the whole of the sides and back of the 

 nape, then continued in a narrower line down the back of the neck, 

 and widening out slightly on the hind neck ; bill black, the tip 

 white ; feet black ; iris very dark brown. Total length 24 inches, 

 eulmen 3-85, wing 17'7, tail 11, tarsus 3*1. 



Bah. North-east Africa. 



a. Ad. st. Abyssinia. Dr. Ruppell [C.]. 



h. Ad. sk. Abyssinia. R. B. Sharps, Esq. 



c. Ad. sk. Shoa. Sir W. C. Harris [C-l. 



d. S ad. sk. Angollala, Shoa, October 1841. Sir W. G. Harris [C.]. 



e. Skull. Purchased. 



5. COLCEUS. ^ 



Type. 



Lycus, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 55 {ncc Fabr. 1787) C. monedula. 



Mooedula, BreJim, Isis, 1828, p. 1273 {nee Coquebert, 



1798) C. monedula. 



ColfBus, Kanp, Natilrl. Syst. p. 114 (1829) C. monedula. 



Range. The whole of Europe and Northern Asia, extending into 

 Northern China and into North-western India. 



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