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Mr. Swinhoe has kindly lent me some specimens of his Graculus 

 brachifpus from China. The general bulk of the Chinese bird is no 

 doubt smaller than those either from Europe or India, and the toes 

 are proportionately shorter ; but consideriug that a little difference 

 in size, more or less, is all that can be found to separate the Red- 

 billed Choughs from various parts of the world, I do not propose to 

 divide them, even as races. 



Hah. The same as that of the genus. 



Col. Montagu [P.]. 



D. W. Mitchell, Esq. [P.]. 



Mrs. Rouchette [P.]. 



J. Gould, Esq. 



Rev. A. Morgan [P.]. 



J. Gould, Esq. 



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



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 M. Olcese [C.]. 

 C. W. L. Merlin, Esq. 

 C.W.L. Merlin, Esq. [P.]. 

 J. Gould, Esq. 



Capt. St. John [C.]. 



Moscow Museum [E. 

 Moscow Museum [E. 

 Purchased. 



Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



[P.]. 

 J. Gould, Esq. 

 J. Gould, Esq. (Type of 



G. himalayensis.) 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 Earl of Gifford [P.]. 

 Shanghai Museum [P.]. 



Type. 

 P. alpinus. 



41. PYRRHOCORAX. 



Pyrrhocorax, Vieill. N. Diet. cFHist. Nat. p. 5U8 (1816) 



Range. Mountain regions of Southern Europe, eastwards to the 

 Himalayas. 



1. Pyrrhocorax alpinus. 



Le Choucas des Alpes, B7iss. Orn. ii. p. 30, pi. 1. fig. 2 ; Month. PL 



Enl pi. 6.31. 

 Corvus pyrrhocorax, Linn. S. N. i. p. 158; Schl. S/- Susem. Vof/. 



Eur. Taf 8. fig. 1. 

 Alpine Crow, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 1, p. 381. 



Pyrrhocorax alpinus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. \-i. p. 568 ; Kaum. Viir/. 

 'Deutsrkl. ii. pi. 57; Vieill. Gal. Ois. i. pi. 104; Roux, Orn. Pnn: 



pi. 1.38; Gmdd, B. Eur. iii. pi, 218 ; Gray, Ocn. B. ii. p. .320. 



