Genus COKONE. 

 Bill very stout, straight, the culmen very high, and carved from the base, the ridge Keeled. 

 Nostrils round, concealed by overlying bristly plumes. Wings long and pointed, the 3rd and 

 4th quills much exceeding the 2nd and 5th ; the 1st about half the length of the 3rd, and longer 

 than the outer secondaries, but shorter than the innermost. Tail moderate and rounded. Legs 

 and feet stout ; the tarsus longer than the middle toe and claw, and protected by strong trans- 

 verse scutse. Toes strongly shielded, lateral ones nearly equal. 



COROXE MACRORHYNCHA. 



(THE BLACK CROW.) 



Corvus macrorhynchus, "NVagler, Syst. Av. Corvus, sp. 3 (1827) ; Hume, Stray Feath. 1877, 



p. 461 ; id. ibid. (B. of Tenasserim) 1878, p. 060. 

 Corvus levaillanti, Less. Traite, p. 328 (1831); Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 460; Hume, Nests 



and Eggs, ii. p. 411 ; id. Str. Feath. 1874, p. 243 ; Ball, ibid. p. 418 ; Hume, ibid. 1875, 



p. 143. 

 Corvus culminatus, Gray, Cat. Mamm. &c. Nepal Coll. Hodgs. p. 102 (nee Sykes) (1844); 



Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 89 (1849); Kelaart, Prodromns, Cat. p. 124 (1852); 



Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 213(1854); Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. 



E. I. Co. ii. p. 553, in pt. (1856); Jerdon, B. of Ind. ii. p. 295 (1863); Legge, Ibis, 



1874, p. 23, et 1875, p. 398. 

 Corvus si hi iisi*, Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 556 (1856). 

 Corone levaillanti (in pt.), Sharpe, Cat. Birds, iii. p. 39 (1877). 

 The Indian Corby, The Bow-billed Corby, The Indian Haven (of some) in India. 

 The Carrion- or Jungle-Crow in Ceylon. 

 Uhttr, Hind, in the north ; Uheri-kowa, Hind, in the south ; Dad-kag, Beng. ; KaJci, Telugu ; 



Ulak, Bhotias. 

 Kaka or Goyegamma kaka, lit. " High-caste Crow," Sinhalese; Kaka, Ceylonese Tamils. 



idult male. Length 17 - to 19 - 5 inches ; wing 11*5 to 12-3; tail G-75; tarsus 2-1 to 2-2 ; mid toe 1*3 to L35, its 



claw (straight) 0-6 ; bill to gape 2-0 to 2-2 ; culmen 1*9 to 2-1. In this species the culmen is much arched. 



Female. Length 10-5 to 18-0 inches ; wing 10-75 to 1L5. 



the smallest birds are from the south of the island. 



Iris hazel-brown ; bill, legs, and feet black. 



Entire plumage black, highly glossed on the scapulars, wing-coverts, and rump with purple ; outer webs of the tail- 

 feathers glossed in a less degree with the same ; feathers of the throat and breast more or less illumined with steel- 

 blue reflections. 



The throat-feathers are stiff and furcate at the tips. 



Obs. The Ceylon Crow is the smallest race of the species, upon which Wagler bestowed his title of maerorhyneha 

 (<•/. Sharpe, Cat. B. iii. p. 38), and which is spread over a great part of Asia and its archipelago, culminating in 

 the very large form inhabiting Japan, which is named japonensis by Bonaparte. In Malacca and the Malayan archi- 



