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Keij to the Species. 



a. Sides of neck more or less grepsh or white; lighter 



than the hack, and forming a collar of greater or 



less intensity. 



a'. Collar round hind neck silvery grey, intensifying 



on the sides of the neck into greyish or creamy 



white. 



„ . 1 J 1 J T.1 1 I m/mcdida, p. 26. 



a . Abdomen leaden black < „ • ' 'oy 



I collaris, p. z/. 



h". Abdomen dingy ashy grey neglcctus, p. 28. 



h'. Collar round the hind neck broad, creamy white ; 



abdomen creamy white like hind neck dauuricus, p. 28. 



b. Sides of neck glossy black like the back : no light 



collar ossifrof/us, p. 29. 



1. Colceus monedula. 



Le Choucas, Sriss. Orn. ii. p. 24. 



Le Choucas a collier, Briss. t. c. p. 27. 



Le Choucas blanc, Briss. t. c. p. 27 (var.). 



Le Choucas noir, Briss. t. c. p. 28 ; Mmtb. PL Enl iii. pi. 522. 



Corvus monedula, Linn. S. X. i. p. 156; Temni. 3Ian. d'Orn. i. p. 

 Ill ; Kaiim. Von. Diutschl. ii. Taf. 56. fig. 1 ; Eotu-, Orn. Prov. 

 pi. 133 ; Werner, Atlas, Omnivores, pi. vi. ; Gould, B. Eur. iii. 

 pi. 223 ; Macgill. Br. B. i. p. 652 ; Yarr. Br. B. ii. p. 102 ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. ii. p. 315 ; Schl. u. Susem. Vog. Eur. ii. Taf. iv. fig. 1 ; 

 Kordin. in Deniid. Vog. Bussie Merid. iii. p. 120 ; Sold. Dier. 

 Kederl. Vog. pi. xiii. tig. 6 ; id. Voq. Nederl. pi. 140 ; Kjcerb. 

 Orn. Dan. Taf. xi. fig. 1 ; Schl. Bijdr. Dierh. Amsterd. folio, 

 p. 15 ; Jauh. ef Barth. Lajwmm. Pick. Orn. p. 95 ; Schrenck, 

 Pais. Amurl. Zool. p. 324 ; Sunder. Sv. Fogl. pi. xx. fig. 4 ; Lin- 

 dcrm. Vog. Griechenl. p. 69 ; Gotdd, B. Gt. Br. iii. pi. 61 ; Filipjn, 

 Viagg. Pers. p. 263 ; Degl. et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 202 ; Schl. 

 Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 33; Gray, Hand-l. ii. p. 13; Doderl. Avif. 

 Sicil. p. 63; Salvad. Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 173; Heugl. Oni. K.O.- 

 Afr. p. 498; Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 100; Hume, Nests ^x. Lid. B. 

 p. 414; Irbii, B. Gibr. p. 128 ; Dresser, B. Eur. part xlvi. ; Sadly, 

 Str. F. 187(3, p. 158 ; Blanf. East. Persia, p. 263. 



La Grolle ou Choucas giis, Montb. PI. Enl. iii. p. 523. 



Corvus spermolegns, Vicill. JS". Diet. d'LIist. Nat. viii. p. 40 ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. ii. p. 3l5 : Schl. u. Susem. Viig. Eur. ii. Taf. 1. fig. 2. 



Lycus monedula, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 651 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 384. 



Colseus monedula, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 114 ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. 

 B. Mus. E.L Co. ii. p. 562; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 302; Hume, La- 

 hore to York. p. 239. 



Monedula turrium, Brehm, Vog. Deidsch. p. 172 ; Loche, Expl. Set. 

 Alger, i. p. 114. 



Monedula arborea, Brehm, t. c. p. 173. 



Monedula septentrionalis, Brehm, t. c. p. 173. 



"Monedula nigra, Brelan,'^ Bp. Consp. i. p. 384. 



Monedula spermolegos, Brehm, Natmi. 1855, p. 273. 



Adult male (Skane, April 5, 1874). General colour black with 

 somewhat of a greyish shade on the back, the feathers of which have 

 obsolete greyish margins ; wings black, glossed with ,purple, the 



