CORVINAE. 251 
Above. glossy black, dull black beneath ; tail slightly rounded ; 
wings reach nearly to the end of the tail ; bill straight at the 
base and high ; culmen raised, curving strongly towards the tip. 
With the exception of Sind, the Corby is a common and per- 
manent resident, breeding during March and April and building 
the usual Corvine stick nest. The eggs, four in number, are 
moderately broad ovals, somewhat pointed at one end, and are 
dull sap-green in color, much blotched, streaked, and dashed with 
brown ; but they vary very much both im size and color. 
They average about 1°71 inches in length by 118 in breadth. 
Corvus umbrinus, Hedenb. 
660bis.—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 175. 
THE BROWN-NECKED RAVEN. 
Length, 21°5 to 23; wing, 15 to 164; tail, 8°6 to 9 ; tarsus, 
2-9 ; bill at front, 3. 
Bill black ; irides dark-brown ; legs black. 
Head and neck glossy umber-brown, also the ear-coverts, sides 
of the face and sides of the neck, the latter scarcely glossed ; 
lores, incumbent nasal bristles, feathers round the eye, and at 
base of bill at the gape, black; back, scapulars, wing, wing- 
coverts, upper tail-coverts, and tail, glossy black with a violet- 
blue gloss ; chin, throat, and breast, dark glossy umber-brown ; 
rest of under surface brown, glossed with purple on the breast, 
flanks, abdomen and vent; under tail-coverts glossy purplish- 
black ; axillaries and under wing-coverts purplish-black. 
The Brown-necked Raven is a not uncommon winter visitant 
to Upper Sind, but does not occur elsewhere within our limits. 
Corvus splendens, Viedll. 
663.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 298 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. HI, p. 493 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 
Vol. IX, p. 413; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 176 ; 
Corone splendens, Vieill. ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; 
This, 1885, p. 128. 
THE ComMMOoN INDIAN CROW. 
Kowa, Hin. Kagra, Sindi. 
Length, 15 to 18 ; wing, 10°75 to 11°25 ; tail, 7; tarsus, 1°85; 
bill at front, 2°12. 
Bill black ; irides deep-brown ; legs black. 
Forehead, sinciput, and lores, glossy black ; occiput, nape, hind- 
neck, and sides of neck, purplish-ashy ; back, wings, and tail, 
black, with rich purple and steel-blue reflections , breast ashy, 
tinged dark ; middle of abdomen dull black, slightly tinged with 
steel-blue. 
The Common Crow is numerous throughout the district, except 
on the hills, where it is replaced by macrorhynchus. . It isa 
