THE 



NESTS AND EGGS 



INDIAN BIRDS. 



Order PASSERES. 

 Family CORVID^E. 



Subfamily CORVIN^E. 



1. Corvus corax, Linn. The Raven. 



Coitus corax, Linn., Jerd. B. Ind. ii, p. 293. 



Corvus lawrencii, Hume ; Hume, Hough Draft N. fy E. no. 657. 



I separated the Punjab Raven under the name of Corvus law- 

 rencei (' Lahore to Tarkand,' p. 83), and I then stated, what I wish 

 now to repeat, that if we are prepared to consider O. corax, C. 

 littoralis, G. thibetanus, and G. japonensis all as one and the same 

 species, then G. lawreneei too must be suppressed ; but if any of 

 these are retained as distinct, then so must C. lawreneei be *. 



The Punjab Raven breeds throughout the Punjab (except perhaps 

 in the Dehra Ghazee Khan District), in Bhawulpoor, Bikaneer, 

 and the northern portions of Jeypoor and Jodhpoor, extending 

 rarely as far south as Sambhur. To Sindh it is merely a seasonal 



* I think it impossible to separate the Punjab Eaven from the Ravens of 

 Europe and other parts of the world, and I have therefore merged it into 

 C. corax. — Ed. 



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