CORVINE. 



Above glossy black, dull black beneath ; tail slightly rounded ; 

 wings reach nearly to the end of the tail \ bill straight at the 

 base and high ; culmen raised, curving strongly towards the tip. 



With the exception of Sind, the Corby is a common and per- 

 manent resident, breeding during March and April and building 

 the usual Corvine stick nest. The eggs, four in number, are 

 moderately broad ovals, somewhat pointed at one end, and are 

 dull sap-green in color, much blotched, streaked, and dashed with 

 brown ; but they vary very much both in size and color. 



They average about 171 inches in length by 1*18 in breadth. 



Corvus umbrinus, Hedenl. 



QQObis. Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p, 1 75, 

 THE BROWN-NECKED RAVEN. 



Length, 21-5 to 23 ; wing, 15 to 16'4 ; tail, 8*6 to 9 ; tarsus, 

 2-9 ; bill at front, 3. 



Bill black ; irides dark-brown ; legs black. 



Head and neck glossy umber-brown, also the ear-coverts, sides 

 of the face and sides of the neck, the latter scarcely glossed ; 

 lores, incumbent nasal bristles, feathers round the eye, and at 

 base of bill at the gape, black ; back, scapulars, wing, wing- 

 coverts, upper tail-coverts, and tail, glossy black with a violet- 

 blue gloss ; chin, throat, and breast, dark glossy umber-brown ; 

 rest of under surface brown, glossed with purple on the breast, 

 flanks, abdomen and vent ; under tail-coverts glossy purplish- 

 black ; axillaries and under wing-coverts purplish-black. 



The Brown-necked Raven is a not uncommon winter visitant 

 to Upper Sind, but does not occur elsewhere within our limits. 



Corvus splendens, Vieill. 



663. Jerdon's Birds of India, Yol. II, p. 298 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 493 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 

 Vol. IX, p. 413 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 176 ; 

 Cor one splendens, Vieill. ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; 

 Ibis, 1885, p. 128. 



THE COMMON INDIAN CROW. 



Kowa, Hin. Kagra, Sindi. 



Length, 15 to 18 ; wing, 10 75 to 1T25 ; tail, 7 ; tarsus, 1*85 ; 

 bill at front, 2'12. 



Bill black ; irides deep-brown ; legs black. 



Forehead, sinciput, and lores, glossy black ; occiput, nape, hind- 

 neck, and sides of neck, purplish-ashy ; back, wings, and tail, 

 black, with rich purple and steel-blue reflections ; breast ashy, 

 tinged dark ; middle of abdomen dull black, slightly tinged with 

 steel-blue. 



The Common Crow is numerous throughout the district, except 

 on the hills, where it is replaced by macrorhynchus. It is a 



