M ICKOCOKAX. — MACROCORAX. 475 



Genus MICROCORAX, Sluu-j^e. 

 Microcorax jamaicensis (Gmel.). 



Corvus jamaicensis, de la Scqjra. Hid. Cuba, p. 12:2 (1839), pi. xxxii. 



fig. 2:! (1850); liidqw. Birdit Aortk ^- Middle Amer. iii. p. 277 



(1904). 

 Microcorax jamaicensis, S/i<irpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 48 (1877); 



id., Ilaml-l. v. p. 601 (1009). 



Four eggs of tlie Jamaican Crow resemble those of Corvus corni.i: 

 They measure rospectivelv : 1'73 by 1-23; 1-73 by I'l ; 1-65 by 

 M2; and 1 -G by Ml\ 



4. Jamaica. Rev. Harham Ziucke []'.]. 



Genus PHYSOCORAX, Botuip. 

 Physocorax moneduloides, Le.-^s. 



rhysocorax moneduhiides, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 50 (1877) ; 

 E. L. Layard, Ilia, 1880. p. ."iSS; E. L. c^ E. L. C. Lai/ard, Ibis, 

 1882, p. 520; J] ii/k'sw. Ahli. Miis. Dresd. 1891, no. 6, p. 46: ^harpe, 

 Hund-l. V. p. (502 (1909) ; iA>A;7c. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 359 (1910). 



Two eggs of the New Caledonian Crow are much like those of 

 Trypanocorcuv frugilegus in shape, colour, and markings. They are 

 fairly gloss)' and the ground is pale greenisli-blue, spotted and 

 blotched all over with two shades of umber-brown and underlying 

 lavender. They measure 1-51 by 1-04, and 1-57 by 1"07. 



2. Moindou, New Caledonia, 20th Oct. Crowley Bequest, 

 (i,'. L. Layard : Tristram Cull.). 



Genus MACROCORAX, Sharjje. 

 Macrocorax fuscicapillus (Gray). 



Macrocorax fuscicapillus, tS/iarpe, Cat. Hird.s B. M. iii. p. 51 (1877); 

 Salrad. Orn. I'ap. ii. p. 488 (1881); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 602 

 (1909). 



Two eggs, believed to be those of the Great-billed Crow, are 

 much like some eggs of Trypanocorax friigilegtis. They are of a 

 long pointed oval shape, almost pyriform, and without gloss. The 

 ground is pale greenish-white, heavily spotted at the broad end 

 and sparingly elsewhere with darker and lighter umber-brown and 

 underlying lavender-grey. They measure respectively : i-Sl by 

 l-2r), and 1-75 by 1-1^8. ' 



These eggs, ])urchased at Stevens's Sale Kooms in 1802, were 

 sold as being those of Manucodia utra, which they certainly are not. 



2. ]\Iv9ol. Old Collection. 



