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This is required as in some instances, such as "Himalayas", "India", 

 etc., the one localitj^ may cover numerous races and it is therefore 

 imperative to designate more clearly the area of the bird originally 

 described. 



The distribution is given in all cases in which Blanford's and 

 Gates' species are divided into geographical races or in which the 

 distribution as given in the Fauna has had to be amended or added 

 to. 



Details of reasons for alterations to names or for sub-divisions 

 into sub-species are, of course, impossible in the space available and 

 have been left out for future articles on particular families and 

 genera. 



When the Catalogue is completed a table will be given showing 

 the full name of all the references. 



The Society intends, I understand, to bring out the Catalogue in 

 book form and this, especially if interleaved, should form a useful 

 hand list to collectors in which to note down their collections and an 

 easy book to annotate and keep up to date as further species are 

 worked out. 



HAI^D-LIST or THE ^'BIRDS OE INDIA." 



Order PASSERES. 

 Family Corvid^. 



1. (1) Corvus corax laurencei. The Punjab Raven. 



C. laurencei, Hume, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 235 (1873), (Punjab). 

 Punjab, Bombay, U. f., N. W. P. Pare straggler Kash- 

 mir and C. P. 



2, (1) Corvus corax tibetanus. The Himalayan Raven. 



C. tibetanus, Hodg., Ann. Mag. Nat. His., 2nd Series, 3, p. 203 

 (1849), (Sikkim). 



Himalayas from Kashmir to E. Tibet. 



3.* (2) Corvus corax umbrinus. The Brown-necTced Raven. 



C. umbrinus, Sundev., K. Vet. Acad. Fork. Stockh. p. 199 

 (18:^8), (Senaar). 



Sind, Baluchistan, S. Persia, Arabia, Palestine and ? N. 

 E. Africa. 



4. (3) Corvus corone orientalis. The Eastern Carrion Crow. 

 Eversm., Add. Pal Zool. fasc. it, p. 7 (1841), (Buchtarma) 

 Kashmir, N.-W. Frontier, Siberia, Yenesei to Japan. 



st. (4) Corvus coronoides levaillanti- The Indian Jungle-Crow. 

 C. levaillanti, Less., Traite d'Orn. p. 328 (l^Sl), (Bengal). 

 Northern India S. of Himalayas. 



* The Indian Brown-necked Raven does not seem to me to he identical with all 

 the African birds which probably form several races, one of wliich is ruficollis. 



t The various races of Indian Jungle Crow are only sub-species of the Australian 



coronoides. 



