12. JIACROCORAX. 



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Adult male. General colour above brownisli black, rather greyer 

 on the head aud neck, and glossed with purple on the back, the 

 wings aud tail being purplish bhick, the latter ashy brown at the 

 tip ; primary-coverts also washed with grey ; entire under surface 

 of body ashy brown, the lower abdomen and imder tail-coverts 

 somewhat mixed with white ; " bare skin of face whitish ; bill 

 whitish, washed with reddish ; iris sky-bhie " (Bernstein). Total 

 length 21-5 inches, culmen 2-7, wing I'S, tail 103, tarsus 2. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but rather larger. Total 

 length 23 inches, culmen 2-9, wing 13-4, tail 10-5, tarsus 2-3. 



Young female. General colour pale brown, inclining to yellowish 

 brown on the head and neck ; throat whity brown ; rest of under 

 surface drab-brown ; quills and tail rather darker than the back : 

 biU yellow ; feet deep yellow, claws light horn-colour ; eye bluish. 

 Total length 23 inches, culmen 2-S, wing 13-2, tail 9-S, tarsus 2-3. 



Hah. Xew Guinea and Salwati. 



A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C. 

 A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C. 

 A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C. 

 A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C. 

 Mr. Hoedt [C.]. 



12. MACROCORAX. 



Head of Macrocorax fuscicajpiUus. 

 Mange. Confined to the Aru Islands, Waigiou, and Ghemien. 



1. Macrocorax fuscicapillus. 



Oorvus senex, Schl. Bijdr. Dierk. 4to, Amsterd. p. 10, pi. 3 (nee 



Corvus orru, Grm/, Cat. Mamm. Si'C. N. Guin. p. 35 (wee Midi.). 

 Oorvus fuscicapillus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 95 ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. 



Coraces, p. 22. 

 Gymnocorvus fuscicapillus, Graij, Hand-l B. ii. p. 14. 



Adult mule (type of species). General colour above purplish black, 

 inclining to finer and more bluish purple on the wings and tail, the 



