406 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



The form that just straggles inside our boundary in Sikhim 

 and Nepal is probably fulvescens of Severtsov {vide S. F., Ill, 

 428), and may prove separable from Pallas' bird, but the matter 

 has not been worked out yet, and it will for the present suffice 

 to quote the latest description of this latter available : — 



" Adult Male. — (Kultuk, 14th April). Centre of the crown 

 greyish brown ; sides of the crown, lores and sides of the head, 

 including the auriculars, black ; a broad yellowish buff band 

 from the base of the bill over the eye and passing round the 

 auriculars to the neck, joining the same colour on the throat and 

 enclosing the auriculars and patch on the side of the head ; back 

 chestnut-red, all the feathers broadly margined with greyish 

 brown ; quills dark brown, with light-brown margins to the 

 feathers ; the inner secondaries and wing-coverts slightly mark- 

 ed with dull chestnut ; rump and upper tail-coverts greyish 

 brown or ashy brown ; tail dark brown, the feathers with slight- 

 ly lighter margins ; throat and breast warm ochreous buff, gra- 

 dually fading on the abdomen to pale buff ; flanks slightly 

 striped with brown ; under tail-coverts with the centres of the 

 feathers dull sooty brown ; bill blackish ; legs light brown ; iris 

 brown, with a yellowish tinge. Total length about 6 inches ; 

 culmen, 0*5 ; wing, 2*85 ; tail, 2*6 ; tarsus, 0*75. 



"Adult Female. — (Kultuk, 20th April). Resembles the male, 

 but is much duller in colour, the dark portions of the head 

 brownish black, not black, and the under parts are buffy white 

 instead of rich ochreous buff. 



"Male in winter. — (Pekin, December). Differs from the male 

 in spring in haviug the black on the crown duller, sullied and 

 edged with brown, and the abdomen is whiter." — Dresser , u Birds 

 of Europe" 



659 Us.— Corvus cornix, Lin. 



Adult Female. — Above drab grey, with indistinct dusky 

 shaft-stripes, the hind neck more decidedly grey ; wings and 

 tail entirely purplish black, slightly glossed with steel green 

 under certain lights ; upper tail-coverts purplish brown, with 

 lighter grey edges ; head all round, foreneck, and centre of the 

 chest glossy blue-black, the feathers lanceolate in shape ; sides 

 of the neck drab grey, exactly like the remainder of the under 

 surface ; thighs dusky black ; wing-coverts blue-black, the 

 axillaries grey ; bill and legs black ; iris very dark brown. 

 Total length 17 inches; culmen, 2*4; wing, 12*5; tail, 7*8; 

 tarsus, 2*2. 



