2G Lieut. -Col. J. W. Yerbury — Further Notes 



alliim in March it seemed to affect by jDreference bushes of 

 Calotropis gigantea. 



61. Dtlophus carunculatus (Gm.) ; Yerbury, Ibis, 1886, 

 p. 18; Barnes, Ibis, 1893, p. 80. 



The flock previously recorded by me (Ibis, 1886, p. 18) is 

 the only occasion on which I have met with this species. 



62. CoRVus AFFiNis, Riipp. 



Rhinocorax affinis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 46 

 (1877). 



When first I arrived at Lahej in March 1895 there was a 

 large flock of these birds in the neighbourhood. My atten- 

 tion was attracted to them by their curious call and their 

 non-corvine look when on the wing, the latter due, I fancy, 

 to a shortness of tail and great breadth of wing near the 

 body, quite out of proportion to the size, as a Crow. The 

 whole flock disappeared in about a fortnight, as, when I went 

 out some days later to shoot another specimen, not a single 

 bird was to be seen. 



63. CoRvus coRAX, Linn. 

 Fairly common inland. 



64. CoRvus uMBRiNUs, Suudev. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. iii. p. 17 (1877). 



a. Lahej, March 15, 1895. 



b. Shaik Othman. In the collection of Capt. Nurse. 

 These Ravens are very plentiful at Lahej, Shaik Othman, 



and on the Isthmus, but during my recent trip I never saw 

 them in Aden itself, except near the reservoir at the Isthmus 

 position just inside the walls, and this seems to be the limit 

 of their w^anderings. Barnes records C. culminatus as the 

 common Aden Crow, but the skins obtained, as above noted, 

 are those of C. umbrinus. When I went to Aden in 1869 

 three Crows were to be frequently seen, and concerning them 

 a story, as narrated by Barnes, existed. They were, how- 

 ever, frequently to be observed at Steamer Point ; I have seen 

 them pretty well all over the peninsula, and they by no means 

 confined themselves to the Isthmus position only. These 

 birds were recorded (provisionally) by Blanford {' Fauna and 



