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Adult female. Above drab-grcy, with indistinct dnsky shaft-stripes, 

 the hind neck more decidedly grey ; wings and tail entirely purplish 

 black, slightly glossed with steel-green under certain lights ; upper 

 tail-coverts purplish l)rown, with lighter grey edges ; head all round, 

 fore neck, and centre of the chest glossy blue-black, the feathers lan- 

 ceolate in shape ; sides of the neck drab-grey, exactly like the re- 

 mainder of the under surface ; thighs dusky black ; wing-coverts 

 blue-black, the axillaries grey ; bill and legs black ; iris very dark 

 l:rown. Total length 17 inches, culmen 2-4, wing 12-5, tail 7*8, 

 tarsus 2-2. 



Adult male. Similar to the female. Total length 18 inches, cul- 

 men 2-35, wing 12-2, tail 7-5, tarsus 2-25. 



Young. Similar to the adult, but the colour rather more dingy, 

 and the drab somewhat shaded vi^ith a purplish lustre ; hind neck 

 decidedly more dusky than in the adult ; upper tail-coverts duU 

 blackish, without any perceptible grey margin ; head also dull black, 

 without lustre, the lanceolate plumes on the fore neck not deve- 

 loped. 



Eal. Great Britain, Central and Southern Europe, Eastern Si- 

 beria (■? C. capellana). 



Obs. On the range of this Crow and its remarkable habit of inter- 

 breeding with C. 7iu'/«rtfe see an important sketch by Professor Schlegel 

 in the ' Museum des Pays-Bas ' (L c). 



a. Ad. st. 



b, c. Juv. st. 

 d,e,f. Pull. St. 



(f. 2 ^^- st- 



h. Ad. st. 

 i. Ad. sk. 



k. 5 ad. sk. 



1. 5 juv. sk. 

 7n. Pull. sk. 

 71. S ad. sk. 



0, p. 5 ad. sk. 

 g, r, s. tS ad. sk. 

 t, u. <S ad. sk. 

 V. Ad. sk. 

 tv. 2 ad. sk. 

 X. S ad. sk. 

 y. Skeleton. 



2. Sternum. 



a', b', c'. Skulls, 



Great Britain. 



Great Britain. 



Gambridgesliire, June 1853. 



Cambridgeshire. 



Wiltshire. 



Hempstead, Norfolk. 



Stockholm, April 28, 1873. 

 Stockholm, June 22, 1873. 

 Archangel, Jime 18, 1872. 

 Ust Zylma, Great Petcho- 

 ra river, May 10, 1875. 

 Heligoland, Oct. 2, 1876. 

 Heligoland, Oct. 2, 1876. 

 Heligoland, Oct. 4, 1876. 

 Belgium. 



Sardinia, March 6, 1872. 

 Bethel. 

 England. 

 England. 

 S. Germany. 



Mr. J. Baker [CI. 

 m. J. Baker [C.]. 

 Col. Montagu [P.]. 

 J. H. Gurney, Esq., 



Junr. [P.]. 

 Purchased. 

 Purchased. 



E. E. Alston, Esq. {C.]. 

 Henry Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



Henry Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.]. 

 F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.J. 

 Brussels Museum [P.]. 

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

 Canon Tristram [C.]. 



J. Rae, Esq. [P.]. 

 Dr. Giinther. 



Subsp, a. Corone capellana. 



Corvus capellanus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1876. 



Similar to C. corniv, but having the light parts of the plumage 

 white instead of drab-grey. The species is founded on some (at 

 present) living bii'ds in the Zoological Gardens ; and their appear- 



