534 Dr. C. B. Ticehurst on [Ibis, 



Corvus corax laurencei Hume. " Dodar Kahn.'' 

 The Indian Uaveu has rather a curious distribution in 

 Sind ; to Upper Sind, for example at Jacobabad, it is a very 

 common winter visitor, to Lower Sind a very rare one ; 

 Hume records it from Hyderabad, and I only met with it 

 once — in ihe cultivation below the pass into the Soorjana. 

 In the Khlrthar range it is presumably more or less resident; 

 here Day met with it in January, and I have seen eggs 

 taken from near Jacobabad, presumably from the hills. It 

 seems })robable that those birds which reach the plains in 

 winter have come from the adjoining hills or possibly from 

 Beluchistan, where the bird breeds at the end of March. It 

 is curious that it apparently does not breed in the plains of 

 Upper Sind, where conditions arc not very different to those 

 in the Lower Punjab and where it breeds freely. In Thar 

 and Parkar district, however, Blanford found it common 

 everywhere in the cold weather, and obtained one at Ghotaru 

 on the Jeysalmer side of the Sind boundary as late as 

 24 March, so perhaps it is resident there. 



Soon after its arrival and just before its departure from 

 Jacobabad, Hume was informed that great numbers die,*and 

 this was attributed to the heat and the diet of putrid fish. 

 The Sind eggs measure 50 x 35 mm. 



Corvus corax ruficollis Less. 



The status of the Brown-necked Raven is somewhat 

 uncertain. Probably it is a resident in the Khirthar, coming 

 into the plains in Upper Sind in winter. There are but lew 

 records; Murray secured one from his collector at Jacobabad 

 in February 1878, and this or another (Butler coll.) with 

 the same data is in the British Museum, where there is also 

 another from Phooloo Bunder, near Larkhana, obtained in 

 January 1878 by Sir Evan James ; while another from this 

 district was in the Swinhoe collection. Both Ravens seem 

 to occur round these districts in winter. On the Beluchi 

 side of the Khirthar and all through British Beluchistan it 

 is common. In Lower Sind any Raven is rare, and then 

 only found close to the hills ; I never saw this bird myself. 



