474 coEviua;. 



Coloeus collaris (Drummond). 



Coloeus collaria, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 27 (1877) ; i<J., 

 Hand-l. v. p. 600 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 359 (191 Oj. 



Corvus monedula, Oates (nee Linn.), Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 22 

 (1889) ; Oates, ed. Hume. Nests ^ Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 12 (1889). 



Corvus collaris, Newton, Ootkeca Wolleyatia, pt. ii, p. 503 (1902). 



Coloeus monedula collaris, Hartert, Vtiy. pal. Faun. i. p. 17 (1903) ; 

 Jourd. Eggs Europ. Birds, i. p. 17 (1906). 



Eggs of the East European Jackdaw are indistinguishable from 

 those of C. monedula. 



2. Gerash, beyond Jordan, 4th May Crowley Bequest. 



{H. B. Tristram): 



1 Erzerum, Armenia (Dresser Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



2. Kashmir. Prof. Oldham [P.J. 



6. Kashmir, 13th May ( W. Theobald). Hume Coll. 



1. Kashmir, 22nd June. Hume Coll. 



Coloeus daiiuricus (Pall.). 



Coloeus dauuricus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 28 (1877) ; Hartert, 

 Vog. pal. Faun. i. p. 18 (1903) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 600 (1909) ; 

 Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 359 (1910). 



Corvus dauuricus, Newton, Ootheca Wolleyana, pt. ii. p. 504 (1902) ; 

 Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, i. p. 419 (1902). 



Eggs of the Daurian Jackdaw are similar to those of C. monedula. 



1 . Siberia. Crowley Bequest. 

 4. Amurland. Crowley Bequest. 



4. China, 9th May. W. RadcMe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Genus RHINOCOEAX, Sliarjpe. 

 Ehinocorax afflhis (Rilpp.). 



Rhinocorax affinis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 46 (1877) : id., Hand-l. 



V. p. 600 (1909) ; Eeich. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 639 (1903). 

 Corvus athnis, N. C. Rothschild ^ Wollaston, Ibis, 1902, p. 13; Shelley, 



B. Afr. V. p. 140 (1906) ; Dresser, Eggs Birds Europe, pts. xiii. & 



xiv. p. 438, pts. xi. & xii. pi. 6. fig. 6 (1908). 



Four eggs of the Ean-tailed Eaven resemble those of Corvus corax. 

 Those obtained at Jjuxor are smaller and measure respectively : 

 1-7 by 1-13, and 1-7 by 1-12. Those from Jericho are larger, 

 measuring 1-98 by 1-24, and 1-9 by 1'28. The two eggs recorded 

 by Mr. Dresser, and taken by Dr. Koenig at Jericho, appear to be 

 intermediate in size, varying from 1-69 to 1-81 in length, and from 

 1-16 to 1-26 in breadth. 



, 2. Jericho, Palesline, 20th April. W. Eadcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



2. Luxor, Egypt, 31stMarch(F. a iJ. Hon. N. C. Rothschild & 



SsA.F.M.W.). A. F. R. Wollaston, Esq. 



[P.]. 



