InO corvid.t:. 



Adult male. General colour sooty black above and below, the 

 upper parts with a slight purplish gloss, loss distinct on the lower 

 surface, the quills externally glossed with dull green ; all the inner 

 webs of the primaries white, excepting the bases and the tips, which 

 are black : bill black ; feet black ; iris scarlet. Total length 16 

 inches, culmen 1'7, wing 9-9, tail 9'2, tarsus 2-5. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 15-5 inches, 

 culmen 1-7, wing 9-7, tail 9-2, tarsus 2-45. 



Yonnf/. Everywhere much browner than the adults, including 

 the feathers of the wings and tail. 



Hah. The same as that of the genus. 



a. Juv. sk. S. Australia. Sir G. Grey [P. 



b, c. cf 2 ad. sk. Murray river. Sir G. Grey P. 



d. 2 juv. sk. Murray river. Sir G. Grey [P-^ 



e. Imm. sk. Australia. C. D. E. Fortnum, Esq. [P.]. 



43. PODOCES. Type. 



Podoces, Fischer, Mem. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, v. pi. 21 



(182.3) P. panderi. 



Range. Central Asia, from Buchara to Turkestan and Thibet. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Tail blue-black. 



a'. AVith a pectoral band panderi, p. 150. 



b'. Willi no pectoral band hendersoni, p. 151. 



b. Tail creamy white biddulphi, p. 151. 



c. Tail white or creamy white, excepting the centre 



feathers ; entire colour above and below sandy . . humilis, p. 152. 



1. Podoces panderi. 



Podoces panderi, Fischer, Mem. Soc. Imp. Nat. 3Ioseou, v. pi. 21 ; 



JBp. Comp. i. p. 388 ; Sharps, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 334 ; Cab. J.f. O. 



1873, p. 63, Taf. 3. figs. 37, 38 ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 ; 



Goidd, B. Asia, part xxvii. 

 Corvus panderi, JSversm. lieise Buchara, p. 126. 

 Pica panderi, Wagler, St/st. Ai\ Pica, sp. 17. 

 Garrulus panderi, Grai/, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 3. 



Adidt female. Above grey, rather darker on the head, and in- 

 clining to isabelline colour on the lower scapulars, lower back, and 

 rump ; upper wing-coverts clear grey, the greater series shading off 

 into black, and broadly tipped with white, forming a duplicate bar 

 across the wing ; primary-coverts black, broadly edged with white ; 

 primaries pure white, black at extreme base and at tip, the shafts 

 also blackish ; the secondaries black, white for the apical half, the 

 black gradually increasing in extent towards the inner secondaries, 

 which are entirely black, the innermost grey like the scapulars ; 

 upper tail-coverts black ; tail glossy purplish black ; nasal bristles 

 isabeUine ; a line of feathers over the eye white ; between the eye 

 and the base of the bill a small spot of black feathers ; sides of face 



