1863.] mr. r. swinhok on thk birds op china. 305 



226. Lycos neglectus. 



Corvus {Monedula) neglectus, Temm. & Schleg. Faun. Japon. 



This has the same range as the above, and is much more closely 

 alHed to the true L. monedula. I have unfortunately no specimens. 



227. Corvus torquatus. Less. 



C. pectoralis, Gould. 



A resident species in China, from Canton to Pekin. The only 

 species of Crow at Amoy. The male and female do not appear to 

 differ much in size of bill. 



228. Corvus sinensis, Gould. 



C. corone of Temm. & Schleg. and von Schrenck. 



I have four specimens of this bird — a female from Pekin, an im- 

 mature male from Foochow, and a male and female from Swatow. 

 The northern birds are larger than the southern, but in essential 

 characters they are the same. The distinctness of the Chinese bird 

 from C. corone of Europe Mr. Tristram agrees with me in consider- 

 ing undoubted ; and it is hard to understand how, after a comparison, 

 they could ever have been united, C. sinensis has a bill more allied 

 to that of the Ravens than to the Jackdaw-like bill of C. corone. 

 The bill of the male C. sinensis is about one-third bulkier than that 

 of its female, which is about the same proportion larger than that of 

 the male C. corone; that organ is, moreover, well culminated, like 

 that of C. culminatus of India. Apart from the bill, however, there 

 are numerous other satisfactory distinctions. The whole plumage of 

 C. sinensis, except the scapulars, coverts, and secondary-edges, is 

 washed with a green bronze, which in C. corone is purplish, and 

 the feathers of the throat and under neck are lanceolate ; the latter 

 marked distinction will enable the most superficial observer to dis- 

 tinguish them. The Chinese is, besides, a good deal larger in size 

 and in length of wing. C. culminatus has a very similar bill to the 

 Chinese bird. In size, it appears to more nearly equal the European 

 species, and in shades of plumage to be intermediate between it and 

 the Chinese, but it hkewise wants the strongly acuminate throat- 

 feathers of C. sinensis. The specimens of C. culminatus that I have 

 had for comparison are from Calcutta and the Andaman Islands. 

 I have also C, macrorhynchus, Temm., and C. enca, Horsf., both from 

 Java, sent me by Prof. Schlegel. These are long-billed species, the 

 former being nearly double the size of the latter. 



229. Corvus japonensis, Bp. 



C. macrorhynchus, Schleg. ; Bp. Consp. Av. p. 386. 

 North China, Amoorland, and Japan. 



230. Corvus pastinator, Gould. 

 C.frugilegus of Temm. & Schleg. and von Schrenck. 



An abundant resident from Shanghai to Pekin ; extends into 

 Amoorland and Japan. Mr. Tristram agrees with me in consider- 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1863, No. XX. 



