462 CORVUS MACRORHYNCIIUS, of Wagler. 



the same species ; but Mr. Sharpe has now pointed out a struc- 

 tural difference which, if constant, will quite suffice to justify 

 our accepting two species at any rate, and he has suggested 

 that I should re-examine my series, as this will, he believes, de- 

 monstrate that Dr. Jerdon was correct in admitting interme- 

 dins as distinct from levaillanti — Mr. Sharpe, as I gather, being 

 of opinion that the bird called culmenatus by Dr. Jerdon is 

 levaillanti, and that intermedins, of Adams, is identical with the 

 true culmenatus, of Sykes. 



Now the series in our museum is not at all what it should be, 

 because I have, for some years, been so convinced of the speci- 

 fic identity of all the crows ootids type in India, Burmah, and 

 the Malay Peninsula, that I have restricted somewhat the 

 number of specimens of these rather bulky birds. Still, inade- 

 quate as it is, I proceed to examine it carefully, recording, in re- 

 gard to each specimen, not only dimensions corresponding with 

 those given by Mr. Sharpe, but also the relation of the first 

 primary to the innermost secondaries, whether equal, longer 

 or shorter, and in the two latter cases by how much, and also 

 the color of the bases of the feathers. 



