AND IN PARTS OF WYNAAD AND SOUTHERN MYSORE. 399 
The following are the dimensions of two males :-— 
Length, 5:7, 5°9; expanse, 9°5, 10°8; tail, 2°4, 2:5; 
wing, 2°9,3:2; tarsus, 0°75, 0°79; bill from gape, 0°5, 
051; weight, 0:62, 0°65 oz. Bill black; legs, feet, and claws 
plumbeous ; irides dark brown. 
660.—Corvus macrorhynchus, agi. The Indian 
Corby. 
Exceedingly common everywhere throughout the district 
under consideration. 
663.—Corvus splendens, Viewd. The Indian Grea 
necked Crow. 
This species does not ascend the hills, and even in some 
parts of the low country at'the foot of the hills it does not 
occur, or is rare, for instance from Goodalore to Nellacotta, 
though on reaching Nellacotta it suddenly appeared, and was 
common ; and this I noticed in other places, though in general 
it swarms throughout the low country wherever there are 
human habitations. Jerdon has given (B. of L., Vol. IL., » 2938 
et. seg.) a very full account of its habits. 
674.—Dendrocitta rufa, Scop. The Indian Magpie. 
This species very rarely ascends the hills above 5,000 feet 
elevation. Ihave onone occasion shot it about seven miles from 
the town of Ootacamund at an elevation of about 6,500 feet ; 
but this was the only occasion in allthe years that I resided on 
the Nilghiris that 1 met with it so high up. 
But on the Ghats from about 5,000 feet it is not uncommon, 
and becomes more numerous the lower one descends. It is quite 
common through the Wynaad and the Mysore country. I can 
add nothing to Jerdon’s description of its habits. 
? 676.—Dendrocitta himalayensis, Bly. The Hima- 
layan Magpie. 
Jerdon records this as from the hills of Southern India (wide 
B. of. I., Vol. II., p. 316). It may beso, but I spent the greater 
portion ‘of my life in South India, and never from the time I 
was a boy of about ten or twelve years of age missed collecting 
birds, and I have never met with it. If it Teally does occur, it 
must beof extreme rarity. Jerdon himself never procured it ; 
he merely thought he recognized it onthe Seegore Pass. Hors- 
field got a specimen in Madras, but on what authority that it 
was killed in South India he does not say. On the whole I 
