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CoRVUS SPLENDENS, Vieillot. ‘The common Crows in Mandell 
have the grey mark on their necks as distinctly as the Crows of 
Calcutta.” In Akyab the Crows are also of the common Indian 
yace ; which appeared for the first time in Khyouk Phao on the 7th 
December, 1856, on which day (as I am informed by Major Ripley) 
a party of seven individuals arrived there, which have since stocked 
the neighbourhood. South of Khyouk Phao, this Crow has still no 
representative in Arakan; but across the mountains which divide 
that province from Pegu, in the valley of the Irawadi, again at 
Maulmein, Tavoy, and as far south as Mergui, it is replaced by a 
wholly black race, quite similar both in form and habit, but having 
a much shriller voice (a sort of shrieking caw, if possible still more 
inharmonious than that of the other). There is just a very faint 
tinge of ashy on the neck and breast, where the common Indian 
Crow is pure cinereous ; but this must be specially looked for to be 
remarked. In the Ceylon race, the grey of the neck and breast is 
much darker than in that common (I believe) to all India; but very 
far from black as inthe Crows of Burma. Whether this race extends 
to the Malayan peninsula, I am unaware; but we know little of the 
ornithology of that peninsula northward of the latitude of Pinang. 
The large black Crow of all India (C. cuLMrNaTUs,) extends through- 
out Burma and the Malayan peninsula, and is doubtless the Sumatran 
C, corax apud Rafiles ; but, in the southern portion of the Malayan 
peninsula, there is another large black Crow with remarkably long 
bill (C, MacrorHyncnos, Vieillot), which again is distinct from the 
C. enca, Horsf., of Java and other islands further east. In Burma, 
as in India, the C. cunMINatus is diffused in pairs over the country, 
and is found even in the depths of the forest, remote from human 
habitations ; whereas the black race of C. spLunDENS, like the grey- 
necked race, is only observed near towns or populous villages. 
The difference of these two races corresponding to that of the 
Carrion and Hooded Crows of Hurope, which are currently regarded 
as different species.* 
* The Jackal has only recently occurred about Akyab ; though, for years past, 
it has frequented the country through which the Koladyne river flows into 
Akyab harbour. It also occurs, rarely, about Prome, and thence northward to 
Ava; but nowhere in the maritime provinces of British Burma, south of Akyab, 
where (as before remarked) it has only lately made its first appearance. 
The common House Maina (ACRIDOTHERUS TRISTIS), and the representative 
of the Pied Starling (STURNOPaSTOR SUPERCILIaxIS), L observed abundantly so 
