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18 SECOND YAEKAND MISSION. 



No. 1070. Tarkand, November 21, 1873. [Hybrid between C. sharpii and C. corone, 

 the latter element predominating.] 



No. 1077. Yarkand, November 28, 1873. [A specimen in which C. corone largely pre- 

 dominates.] 



No. 1279. Kashghar, January 26, 1874. [Pure-bred Hooded Crow,] 



The Yarkand birds are like the Siberian ones, much paler and more dove-coloured than 

 C. comix of Europe, but yet not light enough for C. capellanus. 



Dr. Scully says that the Hooded Crow was very common in the plains of Eastern 

 Turkestan during the winter, when it was seen daily at Kashghar and Yarkand, associating 

 with the Eook and the Black Crows. 



Colonel Biddulph's note is as follows : — " Is a winter bird. We first found it at Sanju 

 in November, and towards Yarkand it became commoner, being mixed up with the Black 

 Crow, and all through the winter about Kashghar it was common to a degree in the streets 

 and everywhere. When we went towards the Pamir it disappeared directly we got into the 

 hills, and had left the plains of Yarkand altogether when we returned in May. The people 

 said they went eastward." Dr. Scully also states that he saw the species first near Yangi 

 Hissar in October, and it migrated from Yarkand about the end of March, to repair, it was 

 said, to the hills near Aksu, where it is reported to breed. The Turki name for this species 

 is ''Ala Kargha," the "Variegated Crow." 



This same pale form of Hooded Crow extends to Siberia, where Mr. Seebohm found it 

 breeding with C. corone at Krasnoyarsk. It also appears to be the ordinary Crow of Persia, 

 and reaches to Gilgit and the extreme north-west of India in winter. 



33. Corone corone. 



CoTvus corone, Linn. S. N. i. p. 155 (17G6) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 63 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, 

 p. 237; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 156 (1876) ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 1^) Scully, ibid. p. 570 ; Homeyer 

 & Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 88; Radde, Ornis, iii. p. 473 (1887) ; Gates, Faun. Brit. 

 Ind., Birds,!, p. 16 (1889). 



Corone corone (L.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 36 (1877). 



Corvus culminatus, Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 157 (1876). 



No. 656. Leh, September 9, 1873. 



No. 1067. Yarkand, November 28, 1873. 



No. 1278. Kashghar, January 26, 1874. 



I cannot see any difference between the two specimens of Crows collected by Dr. Scully 

 and now in the Hume Collection. They are both, to my mind, (7. corone^ and I doubt if 

 (7. culminatus crosses into Yarkand. 



Dr. Scully found the Carrion-Crow very common throughout the plains of Eastern 

 Turkestan, where it lives permanently and breeds. He gives a description of the eggs. 



34. Corone macrorhyncha. 



Corvus macrorhynchus, Wagl. Syst. Av. Corvus, sp. 3 (1827) ; Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 17 (1889). 



Corvus levaillanti, Less. Traite, p. 328 (1831) ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 77 ; Scully, ibid. p. 570. 



Corvus intermedius, Adams, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 171 ; Hume & Renders. Lahore to Yark. p. 237 (1873), 



Corone macrorhyncha, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 38 (1877). 



Corone levaillanti, Sharpe, t. c. p. 39 (1877). 



Corvus culminatus (nee Sykes), Wardlaw Bamsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 62. 



