570 Mr. J. Scully on the 



saying that it is a good species, thoroughly distinct from 

 Accentor montanellus, Pallas, with which Mr. Dresser con- 

 founds it. Gilgit examples are identical with Turkestan spe- 

 cimens named by M. Severtzoff, and with birds collected by 

 myself in Eastern Turkestan. The differences between A. 

 montanellus and A. fulvescens are carefully pointed out by 

 Col. Prjevalsky (Rowley's Orn. Miscl. vol. ii. p. 186). 



134. CoRvus coRONE, Linn. 



This Crow appears to be rare in Gilgit. I procured only 

 a pair, one bird on the 22nd May and the other on the 2nd 

 October, both being adult. The male measured in the flesh 

 — length 21-5 inches, wing 13-4, tail 8-65, tarsus 2*6, culmen 

 2*3, depth of closed bill at nostrils 0*75 ; and the female — 

 length 20-4, wing 13-1, tail 8*2, tarsus 2*4, culmen 2*2, depth 

 of closed bill at nostrils 0*7. The outermost tail-feathers are 

 1*2 shorter than the middle ones. The specimens agree per- 

 fectly with a series of the European C. corone with which I 

 have compared them. They are sharply distinguished from 

 C levaillanti by having a much smaller bill, by the throat- 

 hackles extending further down towards the breast (these 

 feathers being large and glossed purple in C. corone, smaller 

 and green-coloured in C. levaillanti) , and by the whole lower 

 surface and hind neck being glossed with purple, while in C. 

 levaillanti these parts have a greenish steel gloss. 



135. CoRvus coRNix, Linn. 



A winter visitor only, and fairly common in the valleys 

 from the middle of November to the third week in March. 

 All the sj)ecimens secured are thoroughbred C comix, not 

 showing any signs of interbreeding with C. corone or any 

 other stranger. The Gilgit birds are paler than European 

 examples, but do not otherwise differ. 



136. CoRVUS LEVAILLANTI, LeSS. 



I cannot concur with Major Biddulph in his view that there 

 are two species of Crows of this type in Gilgit. On the con- 

 trary, I am satisfied that we have only one species — the Long- 

 tailed Hill-Crow, so common in the Himalayas. The sup- 



