464 CORVID®. 
Corvus scapulatus, Daud. 
Corvus scapulatus, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vig. tab. xxxix. fig. 3, a-e 
(1845-54) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard, Birds S. Africa, p. 416 (1875-84) ; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 22 (1877) ; Cowan, Proc. R. Phys. Soc. 
Lidinb. vii. p. 149 (1882) ; Mitne-Edwards § Grandidier, Hist. Nat. 
Madag., Ois. p. 444, pl. 304. fig. 6 (1885); Nehrk. Kat. Liersamml. 
p- 18 (1899), p. 358 (1910); Stark, Fauna S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 12 
(1900); Rech. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 634 (1903), Sharpe, Hand-l. v. 
p. 596 (1909). 
Corvus albus, Shelley, Birds Afr. v. p. 144 (1906). 
The eggs of the White-bellied Crow resemble those of C. corax 
and C. cornix, but are, as a rule, like those of the Common Indian 
House-Crow (C. splendens) described below, less boldly marked, 
with the ground-colour bluer and brighter. Specimens measure 
from 1°5 to 1:77 in length, and from 1:1 to 1:22 in breadth. 
2. Fashoda, White Nile, 8th April. R. McD. Hawker, Esq. [ P.]. 
1. Potchefstroom, Transvaal, Oct. Crowley Bequest. 
(T. Ayres: Tristram Coll.). 
2. 8. Africa. Gould Coll. 
Te PSayAthica: K. L. Layard, Esq. [ P.]. 
1. Cape Colony (2. L. Layard: Crowley Bequest. 
Tristram Coll.). 
1. Madagascar. Crowley Bequest. 
9. Betsileo, Madagascar. Rev. W. Deans Cowan [ P.]. 
1, Marosiky, EK. Madagascar, 10th Crowley Bequest. 
None (UG JO8 (GSE 
Corvus cornix, Linn. 
Corvus cornix, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xl. fig. 1, ag (1845-54) ; 
Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab, 34. fig. 2 (1855-63) ; Hewitson, Eggs 
of Brit. Birds, i. p. 224, pl. lvii. fig. i1 (1856) ; Shelley, Birds 
Egypt, p. 159 (1872); Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 543 (1874); 
Seebohm, Ibis, 1878. p. 828 ; zd., Brit. Birds, i. p. 544, pl. 16 (1883) ; 
Whitehead, Ibis, 1885, p. 88; Seebohm, Eygs of Brit. Birds, p. 225, 
1. 55. fig. 5 (1896); Newton, Ootheca Wolleyana, pt. i. p. 506 
(1902); Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, i. p. 421 (1902); Rey, Ever Voy. 
Mitteleurop. i. p. 360 (1904), pl. 50. figs. 1-7 (1900) ; Jourd. Egys 
Europ. Birds, i. p.5, pl. ii. figs. 1-7 (1906); Dresser, Eggs Birds 
Europe, pts. xiii. & xiv. p. 432, and pts. xi. & xii. pl. 2. figs. 1-6 
(1908) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 596 (1909) ; Nehrhk. Kat. Liersammi. 
p- 858 (1910). 
Corone cornix, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 31 (1877). 
Corvus cornix cornix, /dartert, Vog. pal. Faun. i. p. 9 (1903). 
The eggs of the Hooded Crow resemble those of C. corav so 
closely as to require no separate description. Some specimens, 
however, are greenish-blue, almost spotless, and precisely similar eges 
are not to be found among those of C’, corax in the Collection. ‘They 
vary from 1°5 to 1°8 in length, and from 1-1 to 1:28 in breadth. 
3. Farée Islands (H. C. Miiller: Seebohm Coll. 
Hargitt Coll.). 
4. Faroe Islands (H. C. M.: Har- Seebohm Coll. 
gitt Coll.). 
