550 



Professor Newton tells me that this is one of the few birds of which a complete monograph 

 has been separately published. Its title is " Verhandeling over de Bonte Kraai (Corvus comix) 

 uit het oogpunt van Natuurlijke Historie en Ontleedkunde, door N. Meursinge ;" and it appeared 

 in 1851 at Groningen, having obtained the gold medal offered as a prize by the scientific society 

 of that town. 



The specimen figured (on the same Plate with Corvus corone) is an adult male in spring 

 plumage, from Denmark, and is the one described. 



In the preparation of the above article I have examined the following specimens : — 



E Mus. H. E. Dresser. 



a, 6 ad. Seeland, May 17th (A. Benzon). b, 2- Copenhagen, February 12th, 1871 {A. B.). c, d. Pagham, 

 Sussex, e (hybrid between C. comix and C. corone) . Pagham (R. B. Sharpe) . 



E Mus. G. E. Shelley, 

 a. Egypt, April (G. E. S.). b, $ . Egypt, March 8th (G. E. 8.). 



E Mus. J. H. Grurney,jun. 



a, ? . Hampstead, January 26th, 1866. b. Northrepps, Norfolk, January loth, 1866. c, $ . Trimmingham, 

 Norfolk, May 21st, 1872 {Hewitt), d. Nice. 



E Mus. Captain Clark Kennedy. 



a, <J . Gebel Sheik- Hereedi, Egypt, February 28th, 1870. b, $ . Tooch, near Cairo, Egypt, March 10th, 

 1870 (A. C.K.). 



