7S 



C ROW, 



^JACKDAW, 



jackdaw. Gen. Sjn. i. p. 378. N" g.—Ar-a. Zool. i!. p. 251. C. 



Corvus monedula, Brun. N" iz.—Mulkr, N° 89, — Georgi Rei/e, p. 1650 



npHIS is common all over Rnjfia and the weft 0? Sibiria : is 

 migratory, remaining in winter only in the fouthern part of 

 Rujfia. A few feen beyond Lake Baikal. Is apt to vary, like 

 many of the Croiv fpecies. 



12. 



PHILIPPINE 



CROW. 



Philippine Crow, Gsn. Syn. i. p. 381. N" 12. 



TN the colleftion of Sir Jofeph Banks is a variety which has the 

 breaftj and the infide of the ridge of the wing, near the fhoul- 



der, clouded with white. 



I alfo obferved a fecond variety among the drawings of Lady 



Impey, in which the belly is flare-coloured. 



13- 



NEW GUINEA 

 CROW. 



Var. 

 Description. 



New Guinea Crow, Gen. Syn. i. p. 381. N" 13. 



/^NE greatly limilar to this fpecies has lately been defcribed to 

 me. Length thirteen inches J body ftout. Bill dufky, a few 

 briftles covering the bafe : irides reddifli : head and neck blueifh 

 afh-colour: the upper parts of the body and wings the fame, but 

 darker : the eye placed in a large bed of black, lengthening into a 

 point at the back part: breaft, belly, and vent, pale ferruginous : 

 quills and tail dufliy ; the laft pretty long, and rounded at the 

 end : the legs red brown, very fcaly and rough. 

 Native place uncertain. 



Bare- 



