38 COKVIDJK. 



inclining to purple ; rest of the under surface purplish black, as also 

 the under wing- and tail-coverts ; lower surface of the quills entirely 

 black ; bill and legs black : iris dark brown. Total length 18-5 

 inches, culmen 2--15, wing 13-7, tail 8, tarsus 2-0. 



Obs. Eelieving as I do that there arc two species of Crow in 

 Australia, it remains to find a specific name for the Corone, as an 

 examination of the tj-pe shows that C. coronoides is a true Corvus 

 (vide siij>ra, p. 20). Instead of proposing a new specific name, it 

 seems to me that we can adopt that of 0. aiistraUs for the species, 

 as Mr. Gould has applied it in his ' Handliook.' He there employs 

 the name of Corvus auxtralis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 365 (founded on the 

 " South-Sea Raven " of Latham, Gen. Syn. i. pt. i. p. 369) for the 

 white-eyed Crow, which he had previously figured as C. coronoides 

 in his folio work. The description given by Latham suits either of 

 the Australian species ; but as Mr. Gould has restricted it, it seems 

 better to follow him. The idea of there being two species of Crow 

 in Australia is not new, since Mr. E. P. Eamsay, in 1865, noticed 

 that in Xew South Wales there were two species, one of which had 

 white irides, the other brown, and that these birds laid difi'erently 

 coloured eggs. The suggestion that the brown-eyed birds are the 

 young, as suggested by Mr. Gould, does not seem to me feasible. 



Hab. Australia. 



a. Ad. sk. Australia. 



b. Ad. sk. Austi-alia. Purchased. 



8. Corone macrorhyncha. 



Corvus macrorhynclius, Wagler, Syst. Av. Corvus, sp. 3 ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 386 ; Cab. Mm. Hein. Th. i. p. 232 ; Schl. Bijdr. Dierk. art. 



Corvus, pi. 1. figs. 5, 6 ; id. Miis. P.-B. Coraces, p. 19 ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 11. 

 Corvus timoriensis, Bjy. C. B. xxxvii. p. 829. 



Similar to C. levaillanti described in fuU below, but with white 

 bases to the feathers. ( Vide infra.) 



Hab. Malacca, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Flores, Timor, Bali. 



a. Ad. sk. Malacca. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C.l. 



b. Ad. .sk. Penang. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



c. Pull. sk. Penang. Dr. Cantor [C.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Sumatra. Pm-chased. 



e. Juv. sk. Sumatra. Purchased. 



f a. 2 ad. sk. E. Java. A. K. Wallace, Esq. [C.l. 



1 $ ad. sk. E. Timor. A. P. Wallace, Esq. [C.X 



1 2 iuv. sk. Semao, Timor. A. II. Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 



k, I Ad. sk. Flores. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C . 



m. Ad. sk. Bali. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [CJ. 



n. Ad. sk. Bali ( Wallace). J. Gould, Esq. 



