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think, in tlie summer plumage ; the irides are dark brown* 

 In the winter pkimage the upper surface is a sort of. olive 

 brown, with more or less of a faintly rufovis tinge; the rump 

 unstriated, the head and back with dark hair brown centres to 

 the feathers ; there is a well marked, dull white, stripe from 

 the nostrils over the eyes; the coverts and the quills are mostly 

 hair brown, the former broadly margined with brov^^nish or 

 olivaceous white, purer just at the tips of the coverts, and the 

 latter narrowly margined, the first few primaries with greyish 

 white, the rest with a sort of greenish or olivaceous white ; the 

 tippings of the coverts form two tolerably well marked wing 

 bars; the tertiaries which are somewhat paler than the rest 

 of the quills, are broadly margined with brownish white. The 

 central tail feathers, which are the shortest, are a compara- 

 tively pale brown, margined all round with brownish white ; 

 the next pair on either side are very dark brown^ very narrowly 

 margined with pale olivaceous, and the fourth with a tiny 

 whitish spot at the extreme tip ; the exterior tail feather of all 

 has the whole outer web white, slightly brownish towards the 

 tip, the whole inner web white for nearly half an inch from the 

 tip, beyond which for another three quarters of an inch, the 

 white occupies (next the shaft) a gradually diminishing por- 

 tion of the inner web, the rest of the feather being brown. 

 The lower surface is a dull white, in many specimens with a 

 faint vinaceous tinge in parts, with a row of small brown spots 

 down the sides of the neck, with similar spots on the breast and 

 longer striae, along the sides and flanks. 



In the summer plumag'e the whole upper surface becomes 

 greatly overlaid with an earthy or greyish brown shade ; the 

 striations of the back and head almost disappear, though the 

 edges of the feather are still somewhat paler than the centres, 

 and the whole lower parts become a nearly uniform pale 

 vinaceous color without, in what I take to be the perfect 

 plumage, a single spot or streak; in some specimens, which 

 however I believe to be somewhat less advanced, a few spots 

 still remain on the breast, and one or two streaks on the flanks. 

 In all stages of plumage, the axillaries are white and the 

 greater portion of the wing lining and the lower surface of the 

 quills pale satin grey. 



657.— Corvus Lawrence!, Sume. 



The Indian, raven which I have provisionally separated (Lahore 

 to Yarkand, p. ) under the above name, is a cold weather 



visitant to Sindh, more especially to Upper Sindh. They abound 

 at Jacobabad; and the very remarkable fact has already been 



