HETEROCORAX.—CORVUS. 455 
reddish-brown and underlying lavender or Jilae-grey. The markings 
on some eggs are small and extremely dense, covering the greater 
part of the ground-colour; those on other eggs are bold and com- 
paratively sparse, the larger blotches being of a very rich colour 
and the smaller ones paler. The eggs vary greatly in size, the 
smallest example in the Collection measuring 1°55 by 1-05, and 
the largest 2°12 by 1°34. 
Face 
Corvus corax, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xxxix. fig. 1, af 
Kaka, near Fashoda, White Nile, R. McD. Hawker, Esq. [P.]. 
19th April. 
Kaka, 50th April. R. McD. Hawker, Esq. [P.]. 
South Africa. Gould Coll, 
South Africa, Gould Coll. 
South Africa. Gould Coll. 
South Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 
South Africa. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
lenge 
South Africa (2. L. Layard). alee Coll. 
South Africa. K. L. Layard, Esq. [ P.]. 
Cape Colony (£. LZ. L.: Tris- Crowley Bequest. 
tram Coll.). 
Cape Colony (7. C. Atmore: Crowley Bequest. 
Tristram Coll.). 
Blaauw Krantz, Grahamstown, B. E. Jupp, Esq. [C-}. 
C.C., 2nd Jan. (B. £. J). 
Blaauw Krantz. 3. E. Jupp, Esq. [C.}. 
] 
Olifant’s Kloof, Dec. (B. B. B. E. Jupp, Esq. [C. }. 
Bowker) (with one ege of 
Coccystes glandarius, cf. vol. ii. 
p. 102). ; 
Newcastle, Natal, 25rd Sept. Capt. Savile G. Reid [C. ]. 
Transvaal (7. Ayres: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 
Coll.). 
Potchefstroom, Transvaal (7. A.). Seebohm Coll. 
Namaqualand. Crowley Bequest. 
Genus CORVUS, Linn. 
Corvus corax, Linn. 
(1845-54) ; Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 220, pl. lvii. (1856) ; 
Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 567 (1875) [part.|; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
B. M. iii. p. 14 (1877); Seebohm, Brit. Birds, i. p. 532, pl. 16 
(1883); 7d., Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 223, pl. 55. figs. 7 & 9 
(1896); Neale, Rep. Cardiff Soc. xxxii. p. 49, pl. (1901); Newton, 
Ootheca Wolleyana, pt. ii. p. 514 (1902) ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, 
i. p. 423 (1902); Rey, Kier Voy. Mitteleurop. i. p. 356 (1904), pl. 48 
(1900) ; Jourdain, Eggs Europ. Birds, i. p. 1, pl. i. (1906) ; Dresser, 
Eggs Birds Europe, pts. xii. & xiv. p. 434, pts. xi. & xii. pl. 5. 
fies. 1-7 (1908) [part.]; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 590 (1909); Nehrk. 
Kat. Eiersammi. p. 357 (1910). 
Corvus littoralis, Buedeker, Ever Eur. Vog. tab. 34. fig. 4 (1855-63). 
Corvus sylvestris, Baedeker, tom. cit. tab. 54. tig. 3. 
Corvus corax corax, Hartert, Vog. pal. Faun. i. p. 2 (1903), 
The eggs of the Common Rayen vary from a pointed to a regular 
