fi. COKONE. 31 



c'. Lanceolate feathers not confined 



to the throat, but extending to 



tlie fore neck and cliest. 



«'. Feathers of hind necli pointed 



and producing a silky hair-like 



structure coroiie, p. 36. 



6'. Feathers of hind neck rounded . avstnilU, p. ;j7. 

 d^. Lanceolate plumes of throat not I viucnirhi/nclia, p. 38. 

 extending to the fore neck . . . , < levuillantii, p. 39. 



japonensis, p. 41. 



d". J'eathers of mantle snowy white at base. 



c'". Size large : wing over 13 inches ; bill 



very long, the culmen measuring 



over 3 inches in length validissima, p. 42. 



d'". Size small : wing not exceeding 12 

 inches ; culmen not exceeding 2*5 



inches in length pMlippina, p. 42. 



Plumage without green, always more or less 

 purple in tone, the outer edge of the pri- 

 maries and the outer tail-feathers steel-black 

 or purplish black ; feathers of the throat 

 not distinctly lanceolate, and with a purplish 

 shade; behind the eye a large tnangular 



bare patch enca, p. 43. 



a. Size moderate: wiuglO 8-12-5 inches, 



tarsus l-9-2'l. enca. 

 /3. Size larger: wing 12-5-13-1 inches, 



tarsus 2'15-2'3. ojtu. 

 y. Size very small ; wing 9'5-9-8 inches, 

 tarsus l'(35-l'7o. violacea. 



1. Corone comix. 



La Corneille mantel(5e, Bnss. Orn. ii. p. 19 ; Month. PI. Enl. 7G. 

 Corvus cornix, Linn. S. N. i. p. 156 ; Baud. Traite, ii. p. 231 ; Natim. 



Viig. Deutschl. ii. pi. 54; Werner, Atlas, Carnivores, pi. 3; Less. 



Traite, p. 328; Gould, B. Eur. iii. pi. 22; Maajill. Brit. B. i. p. 529 ; 



Yarr. Br. B. ii. p. 82 ; Nordm. in I)e>r,id. Voy. Bti^s. Mer. iii. p. 119; 



Gray, Gen. B.ii. p. 315; Kjcerh. Orn. Dan. pi. xi. fig. 6; Blyth, 



Cat. B. Mas. A. S. B. p. 89; Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 231 ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 385 ; Midd. Sibir. Eeis. Zool. p. 100 ; Schl. Vog. Nederl. 



pi. 138 ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 653 ; Schl. 



Bier. Nederl.' ni. pi. 13. fig. 3; Sundcv. Sv. Fogl. pi. 20. fig. 2; 



Fritsch, Vog. Eur. tab. 28. fig. 1 ; Jauh. S; Barth. Lap. Rich. Orn. 



p. 94; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 298; Borggr. Vogelf. Norddeutschl. p. 



81 ; De(/l. et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 200 ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Coraces, 



p. 5 ; Gould, B. Gt. Br. part lix. ; G. R. Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 11 ; 



Salvad. Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 173 ; Boderl. Acif. Sicil. p. 62 ; Heugl. 



Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 503; Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 159; Bresscr, B. 



Eur. partxxvi.; R. Gray, B. W. Scoil. p. 173; Irby, B. Gibr. 



p. 128 ; Severtz. Turkest. Jeuotn. p. 63 ; Bresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 237 ; 



Scully, Str. F. 1S76. p. 156 ; Bhaif. E. Persia, p. 262. 

 Corvus cinereus, Leach, Syst. Cat. 3iamm. Sfc. B. M. p. 18 (1816). 

 Corone cornix, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 99. 

 Corvus subcornix, Brehm, J'ng. Beutschl. p. 168. 

 Corvus cornix ffigyptiaca, Brehm, J. f. O. 1853, p. 97. 

 Corvus tenuirostris, Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. ^i^ (nee Moored. 



