M ICHOCOKAX. MACKOCORAX. 475 



Genus MICROCORAX, Sharpe. 



Microcorax jamaicensis (Gmel.). 



("orvus jamaicensis, de la Sayra. Hist. Cuba, p. 122 (1839), pi. xxxii. 



fig. 23 (1855); llidtjw. Birds Korth $ Middle Amer. iii. p. 277 



(1904). 

 Microcorax jamaicensis, Sharpe, Cat. B'rds B. M. iii. p. 48 (1877) ; 



id., Iland-l. v. p. 601 (1009). 



Eour eggs of the Jamaican Crow resemble those of Corvus comix. 

 They measure respectively: 173 by 1-23; 173 by 1-1 ; 1-05 by 

 1-12; and I'D' by M2. 



4. Jamaica. Rev. Ikrham Zincke [P.]. 



Genus PHYSOCORAX, 

 Physocorax moneduloides, Less. 



1'hysocorax moneduloides, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 50 (1877) ; 

 E. L. Layai-d, Ibis, 1880, p. 838; E. L. fy E. L. C. Layard, Ibis, 

 1882, p. 520; Jl 'iy/wr. Abh. Mm. Dresd. 1891, no. 6, p. 46 : Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. v. p. 602 (1909) ; Nrhrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 359 (1910). 



Two eggs of the New Caledonian Crow are much like those of 

 Trypanocorax fmgilegus in shape, colour, and markings. They are 

 fairly glossy and the ground is pale greenish-blue, spotted and 

 blotched all over with two shades of umber-brown and underlying 

 lavender. They measure 1/51 by 1-04, and 1-57 by 1-07. 



2. Moindou, New Caledonia, 20th Oct. Crowley Bequest. 

 (E. L. Layard: Tristram Coll.). 



Genus MACROCORAX, Sharj,e. 

 Macrocorax fuscicapillus (Gray). 



Macrocorax fuscicapillus, 8/tarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 51 (1877); 

 Salvad. Orn. Pap. ii. p. 488 (1881); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 602 

 (1909). 



Two eggs, believed to be those of the Great-billed Crow, are 

 much like some eggs of Trypanocorax fruyileyus. They are of a 

 long pointed oval shape, almost pyriform, and without gloss. The 

 ground is pale greenish-white, heavily spotted at the broad end 

 and sparingly elsewhere with darker and lighter umber-brown and 

 underlying lavender-grey. They measure respectively : 1'81 by 

 1-25, and 176 by 1-28. " 



These eggs, purchased at Stevens's Sale Rooms in 1862, were 

 sold as being those of Manucodia atra, which they certainly are not. 



2. Mvsol. Old Collection. 



