CORVUS. Oi 
haunts keeping to very restricted areas, the races which have 
taken to scavenging cities and villages for food probably travel 
over very wide areas in the non-breeding season and the result of 
this habit is that we are often faced with conflicting mexsurements 
from the same locality. 
It is most noticeable in the geographical races of this Crow that 
the eges are more easily differentiated than the birds themselves. 
(5) Corvus coronoides levaillanti. 
Tuer Inptian JtnGLE-Crow. 
Corvus levaillanti Less., Traité d’Grn., p. 528 (1851) (Bengal). 
Corvus macrorhynchus. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 17. 
Vernacular names. The Indian Corby, the Slender-billed Crow, 
Jerdon; Dhar or Dhal-Kawa (Hindiin the North); Aarrial (Hind); 
Dad-Kawa, Jungli-Kawa (Bengal). 
Description. Upper plumage glossy black, except the hind 
neck and sides of neck, which are almost glossless, and of which 
the feathers are disintegrated and silky, not of the intense black 
of the other parts, and with the shafts not conspicuously different 
from the webs. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris brown, or very dark almost black- 
brown ; legs, feet and bill black. 
Measurements. Length from about 430 to 510 mm. (about 
17 to 20 inches); tail about 170 to 200 inm.; wing about 
304 mm., but. varying from about 290 to 330 mm.; culimen 
about 60 mm, 
Distribution. The Common Indian Jungle-Crow extends over 
the whole of India south of the Himalayas, as far South as the 
Deecean and on the East to about the latitude of the Madras 
Presidency. To the North-east it is found up to the Bay of 
Bengal, but east of the Brahmaputra its place is taken by the 
Burmese form. 2 
Nidification. The breeding season of this race of Jungle- 
Crow oyer the greater portion of its habitat is from the middle of 
December to the middle of January but in the north-eastern 
portion of its range, such as Behar, Oudh, etc., it appears to lay 
in March and April. The nest is a very well-made neat cup of 
smali and pliant twigs, ee and compactly intermixed with 
leaves, moss, ete., and well lined with hair, grass or wool. It is 
generally placed high up in some tree away from villages and 
towns but may occasionally also be found building right inside the 
streets of big ‘cities. 
The eggs number four or five, rarely six, and are quite typical 
Crows’ eggs, but, compared with those of the lull races, are much 
smaller and much paler in general tint. In shape also they 
average longer in proportion. One hundred eggs average 39°6 x 
28:9 mm. 
