514 OUNITUOLOGY. 



List of specimens. 



271, 9 ad ; Camp 20, November 11, 18G7. 2j— oOi— 17— IJg— 3— 2A— 9A— f-J. 

 Bill, tarsi, and toes, deep black; interior of mouth, deep slaty violaccousblach ; iris, 

 deep Vandyke. 



284, S ad.; Camp 20, November 15, 1867. 26— 51 — 17— l.ii— .•5— L^g— lOj— :)3. 

 Sanje remarks. Interior of mouth with some flesh-color beneath the tongue and lar 

 back. 



285, 9 arf.; Camp 26, November 15, 1867. 25—50—17—14-3-21—10—6. Same 

 remarks. Interior of mouth with cloudings of livid flesh-color posteriorly. 



CORVUS AMERIC^SJS^US. 

 Coiiiinon Crow. 



{Kah'-gchk Nah'-ming of the Washoes ; Qneh'Ah'-dah of the Paiutes.) 



Corvus americanus, AuDunoN, Urn. Biog., II, 1834, 317. — IUikd, B. N. Am., IS.'JS, 

 566; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 426.— Coi'ES, Key, 1872, 162; Check Li.st, 

 1873, No. 228 —B. B. & K., Hist. N. Am. B., II, 1874, 243, pi. xxxvii, fig. 5 — 

 Henshaw, 1875, 327. 



Corrvs iniiericanus. a. ameiicanvs, Coxtes, B. N.W., 1874, 206. 



Corvus cattriniis, CoorEiJ, Orn. Cal., I, 1870, 285 (part, if not entirely). 



In crossing the phiins from Sacramento City to the Sierra Nevada, we 

 found the Counnon Crow exceedingly numerous at a certain phice ah)ng 

 our route, where a considerable stream crossed the plains ; they flew about 

 over the ground and up into tlie trees witli the same noisy cawing as in the 

 east, and appeared to be in all iv.spects the same bird. In the country to the 

 eastward of the Sierra Nevada, however, the Crow was so extremely rare as 

 to be met with on but two occasions, when the number of individuals was 

 limited to a very few. The first examples were seen at the stage-station 

 near the Humboldt marslies, in November. Three individuals only were 

 found there, and these walked unconcernedly about the door-yard with the 

 familiarity of tame pigeons, merely hopj)ing to one side when approached 

 too closely. So much confidence displayed by this usually wary bird was 

 in such contrast with the extreme shyness and caution it exhibits in more 

 thickly-populated portions of the coiuitrv, that we concluded they were 

 domesticated specimens, and iound out our mi-stake only after questioning 

 the station-keeper as to the history of his "pets," when we received 



