42. CORCORAX. 149 



pi. 378. fig. 2; Bhjth, Cat. B. Miis. A. S. B. p. 90; Bp. 



p. 388 ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 227 ; Reich. Syst. Av. pi. Ixxxv. 



fig. 1 ; Horsf. 6i Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 549 ; Jaub. 



et Barth.-Lapomm. Rich. Oi'ii. p. 96; Linderm. Voff. Grieehenl, 



p. 72 ; Jerd. B. hid. ii. p. .319 ; Filippi, Viatig. Pers. p. 350 ; 



Fritsch, J'off. Eur. tab. 28. fig. 5 ; Deyl. et Gerbe, Or7i. Eur. 



i. p. 204 ; Doderl. Avif. Sicil. p. 64; Snlvad. Fann. Ital. Ucc. 



p. 170; Gray, Hand-L B. ii. p. 15; Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 161; 



Htuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 496; Senders. Sf Hume, Lahore to York. 



p. 249 ; Dresser, B. Eur. part xxxviii. ; Irby, B. Gibr. p. 128 ; 



Severtz. Turkest. Jemtn. p. 64 ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 237 ; Scully, 



Str. F. 1876, p. 162 ; Blanf. East. Persia, p. 263. 

 Pmhocorax pyrrliocorax, Temni. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 121; Werner, 



Atlas, Omnivores, pi. 9. 

 Pyn-hocorax alpinus, var. digitatus, Hempr. Sf Ehr. Symb. Phys. fol, 

 Pyn-hocorax montanus, Brehin, Viig. Deutschl. p. 176. 

 Fregilus pyrrhocorax, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 268. 

 Pyri'liocorax planiceps, Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 275. 

 Pyrrhocorax forsythi, Stoliczka, Str. F. 1874, p. 462. 



Adult. General colour glossy black all over ; " biU yellow, with 

 an orange tinge ; legs dark vermilion-red ; iris brown " (Dresser). 

 Total length 16-5 inches, culmen 1*4, wing 10*75, tail 6-8, tarsus 2. 



Ifab. The same as that of the genus. 



a. Ad. sk. Smyrna. C. W. L. Merlin, Esq. [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Pass of Afka, Lebanon. Canon Tristram [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalavas. Captain Stackhouse Pinwill 



[P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Between Simla and Mus- Captain Stackhouse Pinwill 



soorie. [P-]* 



e. Ad. sk. Nortliern India (il/i7;o/-J7(5!?/). J. Gould, Esq. 

 /. Ad. sk. Ladakh. Piu-chased. 



g. Skeleton. Zoological Society. 



42. CORCORAX. rj, 



Corcorax, Less. Traite, p. .325 (1831) C. melanorhamphus. 



Cercoronus, Cab. Arch. f. Naturg. 1847, p. 335. . C. melanorhamphus. 



Range. Confined to Australia. 



1. Corcorax melanorhamphus. 



Coracias melanorhamphos, Vieill. N. Did. viii. p. 2. 



Pyrrhocorax leucopterus, Temm. Man. i. p. 121. 



Fregilus leucopterus. Vigors l^- Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 265. 



Corcorax australis, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 325. 



Corvus leucopterus, TVagl. Syst. Ar. Corvus, sp. 14 ; Gray, Hand-L 



B. ii. p. 15. 

 Corcorax leucopterus, Gray, List Gen. B. 1841, p. 52 ; id. ^- Mitch. 



Gen. B. ii. pi. 78 ; Gould, B. Austr. iv. pi. 16. 

 Corcorax melanorhjTichus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 321 ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 388. 

 Cercoronus melanorhynchus. Cab. Arch.f. Naturg. 1847, p. 335. 

 Corcorax melanorhamphos, Reich. Syst. Av. pi. Ixxxv. tig. 5 ; Gould, 



Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 470. 

 Cercoronus melanorhamphus, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 227. 

 Pyrrhocorax melanorhynchus, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 56. 



