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pi. 58 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 11 ; Salvad. Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 172 ; 

 . Swinh. P. Z. S. Is71, p. 383; Severiz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 03 ; Irhy, 



B. Gibr. p. 127 ; Dresser, B. Eur. pt. xxxviii. ; id. Ibis, 1875, 



p. i'07 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 410 ; Scully, S. F. 1876, 



p. 156. 

 Corvus subcorone, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Detvtschl. p. 167. 

 Corvus liiemalis, id. t. c. p. 167. 

 Corvus assimilis, id. Vogelfang, p. 57 *. 

 Corvus pseudocoroue, Hume, Xests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 410. 



Adult male. General colour above and ■ below steel-black, with a 

 slight shade of purple ; the head and neck decidedly glossed with 

 green, as also are the lanceolate feathers of the throat ; the lower 

 throat purplish, all the phimes being distinctly lanceolate ; quills 

 externally steel-black ; tail purplish black ; bill and legs black ; 

 iris brown. Total length 19 inches, culmen 2-15, wing 12-11, tail 

 8, tarsus 2-5. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but the gloss on the plumage 

 not quite so brilliant. Total length 1 9*5 inches, culmen 2-25, wing 

 13-4, tail 7-8, tarsus 2-4. 



Ifab. Europe and Northern Asia, ranging into I'Torth-western India 

 and China. 



a. cS ad. sk. Dunkekl, N.B., May 1876. A. B. Brooke, Esq. [P.]. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Wo'.singliam, Durham, J. II. Gumey, Esq., jun. 



.lune o, 1868. [P.]. 



c. d. cJ 2 !wi- sli- Lilford Hall, Northants, Lord Lilford [P.]. 



March 10, 1876. 



e. cf ad. st. Bushey, Herts. Purchased. 



/. Ad. St. Near Paiis. R B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.] 



ff. Juv. sk. Turin. M. Bonelli [0.1 



h. d ad. sk. Bahvna, E. Siberia, May 18, Dr. Dybowski [C] t- 



1872. 



i, k, I, m. Skulls. S. Germany. Dr. Giinther. 



7. Corone australis. 



Corvus coronoides, Gould, B. Austr. iv. pi. 18 ; Schl. Bijdr. Bierk. 



Amsterd. fol. art. Corvus, p. 8, pi. 1. fig. 13 ; id. Mus. P.-B. Coraces, 



p. 18. 

 Corvus australis, Gould, Handb. B. Atistr. i. p. 475 ; Gi-ay, Haiul-l. B. 



ii. p. 12 (pt.). 



Adult. Purplish black, the gloss not quite so brilliant on the 

 wings, which incline to steel-black on the outer aspect of the pri- 

 maries ; tail puri)lish black ; head and neck also purplish, not so 

 bright as the back ; feathers of the throat long and lanceolate in 

 shape, of a greenish black colour, the plumes of the lower throat 



* In Dresser's ' Birds of Europe' (/. c.) will be found nine trinominal names 

 for this bird, given by the late Pastor Brehm to the species, and published by 

 his son Dr. A. B. Brehm in an account of his father's collection. I decline to 

 quote these names. 



t Labelled Corvus oricntalis, Eversm. (Addend. Pall. Zoogr. ii. p. 7). From 

 this one specimen I am not able to separate the bird from the ordinary Carrion- 

 Crow. 



