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in the east of the Old Continent. Bonaparte considered it a good 

 species, but Adams states that lie considers those which he obtained 

 and nanit-d corax, to be identical with IIod<:son's tilietaniis. It 

 has been found in Ladakh, Kuniaon, and other sites on the more 

 eastern [)art of the Himalayas. I never saw it in Sikhim. 

 Other Ravens are found in various part of the World. 



2nd. — Carrion crows, Corone, Kaup and Gray. 



659. Corvus corone, Linnaeus. 



Gould, Birds of Europe, pi. 221 — IIoRSF., Cat. 831 — Adams, 

 List of Birds of Cashmere, No. 13. 



The European Carrion Crow, 



Uescr. — Plumage black, highly glossed ; feathers of the throat 

 short, ovate, lanceolate, compact ; tail very nearly square ; the bill, 

 compared with that of culmiuatus, more rounded on the cidmen, 

 more gradually curved, and altogether weaker, with the nareal 

 bristles perhaps longer. 



Bill and legs black. Length 19^ inches ; wing 13 ; tail 7 ; bill 

 at front 2^ ; tarsus 2^. 



On the authority of Dr. Adams, I insert the Corby or Carrion 

 Crow of Britain among the birds of India, for it is not in Blyth's 

 Catalogue, nor in that of Horsfield, as from India ; but the 

 latter naturalist has it from Affghanistan, where it was 

 obtained by Griffith. Adams says that it is very common in 

 Cashmere. 



660. Corvus culminatus, Sykes. 



Cat. 117— Bltth, Cat. 448— Hoksf., Cat. 833— C. macror- 

 hynchos, apud Jerdon, Cat. 158 — C. corone, var. Franklin — 

 C. corax, apud RoYLE — C. enca, apud Suxdevall — C. orientalis, 

 EvERSMAN — GiiAYand Haudwicke, 111. Ind. ZooL 2, pi. 36, f. 2. 

 — Dha?- or Dhal kowa, H., on the North, Dheri-kowa H. in the 

 South — Karrial of some Falconers — Dad-kag, Beng. — Kaki, Tel. 

 — Kaka, Tam. — Vlak-pho, Lepch. — Ulak, Bhot. — Raven of some 

 Europeans in India. 



