454 roRviD.^5. 



5. Loxwooil, Sussex, 4lh Maicli Salvin-Godman Cdll. 



(P. (jodnuai^. 



4. Alton, Ilauts, 2iul April. Crowley Bequest. 



tj. Maiden Newton. Dorset, 17tli W. Eadclifle Saunders, Esq. 

 April (It. WuUis). [P.]. 



6. Maiden Xewton, 2Gth April W. Eadcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



(7^. W.). [r.j. 



7. Co. Antrim, Ireland, 31st March W. Radclifte Saunders, Esq. 



{S.M.SUars). [P.I. 



± Sweden. S. O. Sahlin, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Valkenswaard, Holland, 21st Seebohm Coll. 



May. 



F). Vomerama (T. Holland). SeeLolim Coll. 



5. lllieuish Prussia, 22nd April. Seebolim Coll. 



Trypanocorax pastinator {Gould). 



(Plate XXT. figs. G& 7.) 



Corvus pastinator, Siviiihoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 336. 



Trypanocorax pastinator, Shaiye, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 10 (1877) ; 



Tacz. Faun. Orn. Siher. Orient., Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (7) xxxix. 



p. 537 (1891) ; AW-to/i, Ootheca JV')!/ei/ana, pt. ii'. p. 506 (1902) ; 



Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 589 (1909); Xthrk. Eat. Eiersamml. p. 357 



(1910). 

 Corvus frugilegus pastinator, Ilartert, Vd(/. pal. Faun. i. p. 14 (1903). 



Eggs of the Eastern Rook cannot be separated irora the more 

 densely marked examples of the eggs of T. fruijilerjas. They vary 

 in length from 1-5 to 1-65, and in breadth from 1-08 to 1-12. 



1. \Q,hma](Nehrkorn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



3. Amov, China {R. Sicinhoe). Seebohm Coll. 



4. Chin-kiang, E. China, 9th April. J. D. La Touclie, Esq. [C.]. 



Genus EETEROCORAX, Shar^^e. 



Heterocorax capensis (Licht.). 



(Plate XXI. figs. 4 & 5.) 



Corvus montanus, Tliien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Toy. tab. xxxix. fig. 7, a-c 



(1845-54). 

 Corvus capensis, Andersson, Bird.s Damaraland, p. 155 (1872) ; Marshall, 



Ibis, 1900, p. 223; Starh. Fauna S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 14 (1900) ; 



Shelley, Birds Afr. v. p. 152 (1906). 

 Heterocorax capensis, Sharpe, ed. layard, Birds S. Africa, p. 415 



(1875-84); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 12 (1877): Butler, 



Feilden ^- Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 255 ; Nehrk. lurt. Eiersamml. p. 13 



(1899); Reich. Viiq. Afr. ii. p. 637 (1903); Sharpe. Hand-l. v. 



p. 590 (1909); Nchrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 357 (1910). 

 Heterocorax capensis minor, Reich. Viit/. Afr. ii. p. 638 (1903). 



The eggs of the African Rook are of a narrow, pointed oval 

 shape and moderately glossy. They vary from reddish-white to 

 salmon-pink, and are marked with rich chestnut, lilac-red, or pale 



