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natives of Ungaru as the " Kunguru," which name he found was 

 also apphed to the Black-and-white Crow at Zanzihar. Fisher 

 records them as daily visitors to his camps near the mouth of 

 the Pangani Eivcr and at Lake Xawasha, and remarks that 

 while they were abundant in the vicinity of the huts of the 

 Masai people, who feed upon meat and rear cattle, they were 

 absent from the seed-growing lands near Xguruman. On 

 Kilimanjaro Mr. H. C. V. Hunter met with them up to 1-5,000 

 feet, and Sir Harry Johnston writes : " Inhabits the whole 

 mountain up to the snow, and breeds in August in the most 

 inaccessible rocks." In his book entitled " The Kilimanjaro 

 Expedition," he gives a good figure of this Raven. Close 

 to the Equator Mr. Jackson has procured the species from 

 the Kuwenzori Mountains, at Kampala, in Southern Uganda, 

 on Mount Elgon, and in Nandi, and writes : " This fine Raven 

 is plentiful in Nandi. It is a tame and confiding bird. 

 Although plentiful here in Jul}-, it was not present two 

 months ago, and was probably away breeding." In South 

 Uganda it has also been procured by the late Mr. V{. G. 

 Doggett at Mulema. 



Corvultur crassirostris. 



Corvus crassiroBtris, Kiiijp. N. Wirb. Vog. p. 19, pi. H (1835-40) Abijssmia. 

 Corvultur ci'assirostris, Sharpc, Cat. B. M. iii. p. 25 (1877) ; Shellev, 



B. Afr. I. No. 633 (1896); Keichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 641 (1903); 



Grant, Ibis, 1903, p. 255 6'. Abyssinia; Neum. J. f. 0. 1905, p. 231 



Shoa. 

 Corvus albirostris crassirostris, Kleinschmidt, J. f. 0. 1906, p. 82. 



Adult. Similar to C. alhicollis, from which it ditfers in the bill, bein" 

 double the size ; feathers of the throat being more rounded and of a more 

 purplish shade like the entire under parts, there being no trace of a white 

 pectoral band ; on the hinder neck a large patch of white covero the sides 

 and back of the nape, and is continued in a narrow line down the neck, and 

 widens out slightly towards the mantle. Iris brown ; bill black with the 

 end whitish ; feet black. Total length 23-5 inches, culmen 40, wing 18-5, 

 tail 10 0, tarsus 3-3. J , 21. 4. 68, Takonda (Jesse). 



