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length ; the commissure is also a little arched ; feathers, 

 which sometimes cover the nostrils, have occasioned 

 their approximation to the ravens, but the sloping of 

 the beak will not allow this. 



They come, like the Cassicans, from the remotest 

 parts of the Indian s eas. 



United with the genus Cehlephyris of Cuvier, by 

 Temminckand others, and with the Coracina of Vieillot. 



Papuan Crow, Lath. 15. C. Papuensis, Gm. PI. En, 

 6. 30. Cehlephyris Javanesis, Hors. 



Grayish-ash ; belly white ; quills blackish-brown ; eye- 

 spot black ; bill yellow ; feet black, short ; length 

 eleven inches. India, Sumatra. 



Corvus melanops, Lath. Rollier a masque 

 noir, Vail. O. A. t. 20. 



Above bluish-ash ; beneath paler ; face and throat 

 black ; quills black, gray-edged ; bill black ; feet dark ; 

 female, beneath brown ; banded with only one black 

 band. Oceania. 



New Giiinea Croiv, Lath. 14. Corvus Novce, Guinea, 

 Gm. PI. En. 629. Coracina Fasciata, Vielloit. 



Above deep bluish-ash ; face, eye-streak, and tail, 

 black ; loins, rump, belly, thighs, and vent, black and 

 white-banded ; quills white-edged ; female grayer ; 

 length twelve inches. New Guinea. 



Gravcalus Mentalis, Vigors and Horsfield. 



Ashy-brown ; beneath paler ; frontal band, gular spot, 

 quills, and tail, black ; chin, vent, and tips of tail, 

 white ; length nine inches. Young of C. Melanops ? 



