18 COflVIDJE. 



In the British Museum there are about 300 specimens of the 

 Jungle-Crow from all parts of India and Burma. An examination 

 of this series makes it evident, as Hume has already shown, that 

 there is but one species of this large Crow in the Empire. Neither 

 by size, structure, nor coloration is it possible to separate the series 

 into two or more species. The smallest birds occur in the North- 

 west Himalayas and the largest in the Andamans and Burma, and 

 between the two extremes there is a connected chain of intermediate 

 specimens. 



Fig. 5. Foot of C. macrorhynchus. 



Distribution. The Jungle-Crow occurs in every portion of the 

 Empire and Ceylon, except the higher parts of the Himalayas, and 

 is a resident species. It extends in the same or a modified form 

 down to the islands of South-eastern Asia and to China. 



Habits, fyc. This Crow is not only found in forests and the re- 

 moter parts of the jungle, but it also frequents towns and villages 

 in considerable nuirfbers. It associates with the ordinary House- 

 Crow ; and the two species have precisely the same habits. 



The nesting- season commences in the middle of January, and 

 lasts throughout February. The nest, a large structure made of 

 twigs and lined with some soft material such as hair or grass, is 

 placed near the summit of a tolerably large tree well away from 

 human habitations. The eggs, four or five in number, are green 

 marked with various shades of brown, and measure about 1-7 by 1*2. 



5. Corvus frugilegus. The Rook. 



Corvus frugilegus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 156 (1766) ; Blyth, Cat. p. 90; 



Horsf. $ M. Cat. ii, p. 557 ; Jerd. B. 1. ii, p. 302; Hume, Cat. no. 664; 



JBiddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 77, 1882, p. 28i ; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 571 ; 



Hume, S. F. x, p. 518. 

 Trypanocorax frugilegus (Linn.}, Sharps, Cat. B. M. iii, p. 9. 



