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been named or described, though it is by no means rare in 

 Bombay and other towns. It is very likely the common crow, 

 and might, indeed, pass for that bird, but for two marks by 

 which it may be distinguished at a glance, vis., a prominent 

 corky wart, which grows right across the bridge of its nose, 

 and a certain sense of shame which seems to pervade all its 

 proceedings. I have written a full account of its appearance 

 and habits under the name of Corvus cor.iciger^ but I am 

 deterred from publishing the paper at once by a suspicion 

 which has crossed my mind that Mukkun, the mussaul, may, 

 in sportive mood, have manufactured the species out of a 

 captured common crow and a soda-water cork. 



CORVUS CORT1CIGER. 



