71 [Vol. xxix. 



Hab. Southern New South Wales, Victoria, and 

 South Australia,, ranging to South-western Australia and 

 Tasmania. 



The Crow. — The adult has the bases of the feathers of 



the mantle pure 'white (as in the Small-billed Crow, 



C. bennetti), and the feathers of the throat not 



abnormally lengthened. 



Hab. Northern New South Wales, Queensland, North 



and West Australia. 



The type specimen of C. coronoides, Vigors and Horsfield 

 [Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 261 (1827)], preserved in the 

 British Museum, is undoubtedly an immature example of 

 the Raven, but, being in the first year's plumage, lacks the 

 lengthened feathers on the throat, and has the bases of the 

 feathers on the hind-neck greyer than in the adult. It can, 

 however, by no possibility be confused with the Crow, which 

 has the basal part of the feathers snow-white. It is now 

 impossible to discover where the type specimen of C. coru^ 

 noides was obtained, but it probably came from Parramatta, 

 New South Wales, as suggested by North [Nests and Eggs 

 Birds Austr. i. p. 3 (1901)]. 



Sharpe, in the '^ Catalogue of Birds,' volume iii., though 

 fully recognising the presence of the Baven and the Crow, 

 has unfortunately entirely confused the two species in the 

 most unaccountable way. Under Corvus coronoides (p. 20) 

 he lists the type specimen and several other examples of the 

 Raven from Tasmania, South Australia, &c., but he also 

 includes examples of the Crow from Port Essington and 

 North and West Australia, and his description is un- 

 doubtedly taken from a bird of the latter species, which 

 had " all the feathers of the upper surface snowy-white at 

 base." 



Under Corone australis (p. 37) he describes the Raven 

 with the "■feathers of the throat long and lancolate in 

 shape," and the two birds listed by him are undoubtedly 

 specimens of the Raven. Sharpe proposed to utilise the 



