262 il/r. ViGORs's and Dr. Hors field's Description of the 



Rostrum sublongum vix glabrum. Longitudo corporis, 22 ; ala 

 a carpo ad reraigem tertiam, 14 ; cauda, 9 ; rostri, 2-^ ; 

 tarsi, 2^. 



This bird lias a very general resemblance to onr common 

 species C. corone. It is to be distinguished chietly by its supe- 

 rior size, its length being twenty-two inches, Avhile that of the 

 European species is eighteen inches*. The bill also ditiers. In 

 our bird this member is much more elongated in proportion to 

 its size ; the culmen is less rounded and arched, and the gonijs of 

 the under mandible less prominent : it is also less smooth and 

 glossy than in C corone. 



In Mr. Caley's M8S. are the following remarks. " This bird 

 is oreoarious and not to be met with at all times. Its native 

 name is fVa'gan. — Moowattin, a native follower of mine, tells me 

 that it makes its nest like the Ca'ruck {Cr. tibicen), but that he 

 never met with more than one nest, which was in a Corai/bo tree, 

 at the Devil's Back, about four miles from Prospect Hill. He 

 and several other natives at first took it to be a Ciirriai/gun's 

 (Sci/t/irops) nest. There were two young ones in it, and the 

 broken shells of two eggs, which were quite black. There was 

 a quantity of dung under the tree. — - 



" I have observed that the croak of this bird is not so hoarse as 

 that of C. corone. This was also remarked by the same native 

 M"hen with me in this country (England) on his hearing a Crow 

 one morning near Eulham. — 'i'hc people in the colony say that 

 it will devour chickens : this I rather doubt."— In a subsequent 

 Note Mr. Caley says, that he remembers once or twice meeting 

 with a single bird of this species ; and once more particularly in 

 the month of November 1804, when in the roughest part of the 

 mountains, he observed for several days a pair of them li3nng 



* Montagne, UriiUh. Diet. — Art. " Crow-carrion." 



about. 



