CORVUS. — 123 
mm. ‘The nest is a loosely constructed platform of fiber, mixed with a 
few rootlets, ete.” (Grant and Whitehead.) 
“The Philippine crow is very common throughout the Islands, except 
in the Palawan group, where it is lacking. It picks into young coconuts, 
steals young pigeons, and even comes into the kitchens of the native 
houses to steal. As a natural consequence, the bird is thoroughly de- 
tested. Two males measure: Length, 546; wing, 314; tail, 210; culmen, 
59; tarsus, 54; middle toe with claw, 52.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
genus CORVUS Linneus, 1758. 
First primary decidedly shorter than the outer secondaries, the latter 
longer than any of the interior ones; tail very slightly rounded and 
shorter than the longest secondary. 
Species. 
@. Larger; wing, about 250 mm.; tail, 140; bill longer and more slender. 
pusillus (p. 723) 
@. Smaller; wing, about 220 mm.; tail, 120; bill shorter and stouter. 
samarensis (p. 724) 
738. CORVUS PUSILLUS Tweeddale. 
LITTLE CROW, 
Corvus pusillus TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 622; GRANT and 
WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 234, pl. 6, fig. 5 (egg); WuirenEap, Ibis 
(1899), 100 (habits); McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 
110. 
Balabac (Hverett); Calamianes (Bourns € Worcester, McGregor); Mindoro 
(Steere Exp., Schmacker, Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Palawan 
(Bverett, Lempriere, Whitehead, Platen, Steere Eap., Bourns & Worcester, 
Celestino, White). 
Adult.—Entirely black, faintly glossed with purple; bases of many 
of the feathers drab-gray or white; gloss on alula, primaries, and primary- 
coverts dark green. A male from Mindoro measures: Wing, 250; tail, 
135; culmen from base, 50; bill from nostril, 37; depth of bill at nostril, 
18; tarsus, 44. A female from Mindoro, wing, 240; tail, 145; culmen 
from base, 50; tarsus, 46. 
Steere collected a single egg of this species in Mindoro in June, 1888. 
The egg, taken from the oviduct of female, is thus described: “Shape 
ovate, rather rounded towards the smaller end. Ground-color pale 
greenish white, finely spotted and dotted over the entire shell with 
greenish brown and pale lavender. Measurements 38 mm. by 26 mm.” 
(Grant and Whitehead.) 
“The little crow is very common in Mindoro; much rarer in Palawan 
and the Calamianes Islands. Unlike Corone philippina, it is a very shy 
bird. Its note sounds like that of an overgrown ‘katy-did. Iris dark 
brown; legs, feet, nails, and bill black. A male from Culion measures, 
