584 Birds of Celebes: Corvidae. 



-j- * 245. GAZZOLA TYPICA Bp. 



Pied Crow. 



(I. Gazzola caledonica fl) Bp. (nee Gm., nee syn.), Consp. 1850, I, 383. 



Gazzola typica [IJ Bp., Comptes Rend. 1853, XXXVII, 828; (2 J id., Notes Orn. Coll. De- 



lattre 1853; (3) Hartl., J. f. O. 1854, 168 (N. Caledonia!); (4) Sclat., Ibis 1859, 113; 



(5) id., ib. 1860, 190; (6) Verr. & des Murs, Key. Zool. 1860, 432 (N. Cal.!); (7) 



Sclat., Ibis 1861, 107; (8) Wald., Tr. Z. S. Vm, 1872, 74; (9) Sharpe, Cat. B. 



m, 1877, 47; (10) Bilttik., Zool. Erg. Weber's Reise Ost-Ind. 1893, lEE, 280; 



(11) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 14; (12) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 



155; (13) id., ib. 1897, 160. 

 L/. Corvus advena (I) Schl. (nee Brehm), Bijdr. Dierk., Notice Corvus 1859, 3, pi. 2; (2) 



id., Mus. P.-B. 1867, Coraces 6; (3) Wall, Malay Ai-chip. 1869, I, 375; (4) Gray, 



HL. n, 1870, 13, Nr. 6229. 

 Figure and descriptions. Schlegel b I, b 2\ Sbarpe 9. 

 Adult. Head all round, chin, throat and upper surface, together with flanks, 



thighs and under tail-coverts, black with a purple gloss; all the remaining 



under-parts, including a broad collar covering the hind neck and upper 



part of mantle, wliite; under wing-coverts blacldsh brown. "L'is coffee-brown; 



bill, feet and orbital ring black" (Q, Kalibangkere, Tjamba Distr., I. "VTH. 78: 



Platen — C 5374; cf, Marangka, Maros Peak, 5. VH. 95: Sarasin Coll.). 

 Sex. Sexual differences of coloration are not known to exist. 

 Measurements. Wing ($) 213, cf 220; tail $ 115, (;f 120; tarsus ca. 40; l)ill from nostril 



2 28, cf 31 mm. 

 Distribution. South Celebes: — Near the Maros Falls (Wallace b 3, 9), Maros Peak (P.& F, 



Sarasin 11), Tjamba Distr. (Platen in Dresd. Mus.), Bonthain Mts. (Weber 10, 



Everett 12, Doherty 13). 



The little black-and-white Crow of Celebes is a well marked species, confined 

 so far as is yet known to the South of the island, where few examples have been 

 collected, but it is said by- Mr. Doherty to be common enough north of Macas- 

 sar and on Bonthain Peak. The confusion in regard to its history — it having 

 been originally said to have come from New Caledonia, and it was identified with 

 Corvus (Graucalus) caledonicus (Gm.) by Bonaparte — has been put straight by 

 Dr. Sclater (4) and Lord Walden (8). .Where Bonaparte's type came from 

 must be a matter of conjecture, but, as it was, like Streptocitta albicolUs, said to 

 have been a New Caledonian bird, it is possible that it was obtained at the 

 same time and place as that species, viz. in the island of Buton or of Muna 

 by the naturalists accompanying Dentrecasteaux. 



The genus Gazzola is hardly to be separated from Corvus. The first pri- 

 mary is shortened, being about 20 mm shorter than the secondaries; the second 

 is also shortened, reaching Vs of the distance between the end of the first pri- 

 mary and the tip of the wing; the fourth quill is longest. The bill is large 

 and slightly bloated in appearance, much resembling that of Corvus enca, but 

 not slightly compressed at the sides in its terminal third. In plumage it is 

 very like Corvus dauricus Pall, of E. Siberia, China and Japan, a Jackdaw 



