BIEDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMEKIOA. 277 



shorter and less dense (quite covering nostrils, however), and bill dif- 

 ferently shaped, being much more compressed and more rapidly taper- 

 ing to the point; length (skin), 330.5; wing, 232.6; tail, 135; culmen, 

 43.5; depth of bill at nostrils, 15; tarsus, 48.5; middle toe, 32.5." 

 Island of Cuba, Greater Antilles. 



Corms minvius Gundlaoh, Joum. Bost. Soc. N. H., vi, 1852, 315 (Cuba); 

 Jouin. fur Orn., 1856, 97; 1874, 139; Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 290.— 

 Baird, Eep. Pacific R. E. Surv., ix, 1858, 569, footnote.— Brewer, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307.— Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 234, footnote.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 229; Birds "W. I., 

 1889, 116; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 14, 110, 129, 146 (Cuba). 



[Corvus\ minutus G^AY, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 13, no. 6218.— Cory, List Birds W. I., 

 1885, 14. 



C[(rn)m'\, mimitua Ridqway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 363. 



Colons mmidus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 1877, 29, footnote. 



CORVUS JAMAICENSIS Gmelin. 

 JAUAICAN CROW. 



Adults {sexes alike.) — General color uniform sooty slate, deepening 

 into black on head; wings and tail darker sooty slate or dull slate- 

 blackish, very faintly glossed with violet; bill, legs, and feet black; 

 iris grayish brown. 



Aduli male. — Length (skin), 384; wing, 237.5; tail, 145; exposed 

 culmen, 51; depth of bill at nostrils, 17.5; tarsus, 50; middle toe, 35. 



Adult female. — Length (mounted specimen), 330.5; wing, 224; tail, 

 136; exposed culmen, 46; depth of bill at nostrils, 17.5; tarsus, 48; 

 middle toe, 32.5. 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles. 



Conms jamaicerms Gmehn, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 367 (based on Chattering Crow 

 Latham, Gen. Synop. Birds, i, 377).— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 154. 



Corvus jamaicensis GossB, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 209; Illustr. Birds Jam., 1849, 

 pi. 52. — Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, 38. — ^Albrecht, Joum. fiir 

 Orn., ]862, 202.— Sclater, Oat. Am. Birds, 1862, 146.— March, Proc. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 300.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 228; Birds "W. I., 1889, 

 115; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 14, 109, 130 (Jamaica).— Scott, Auk, x, 1893, 178. 



IConms] jamaicensis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 13, no. 6215. — ScLATERand Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 40.— Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 14. 



Clonmsl jamaicensis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 385. — Baird, Brewer, and 

 Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 234. — Newton (A. and E.I Handb^ 

 Jam., 1881, 103. 



Corone jamaicensis Bouoard, Oatalogus Avium, 1876, 282, no. 8854. 



Microcorax jamaicensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 1877, 48. 



ICorvus"] nasicus (not of Temminck) Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 13, no. 6217 (fide 

 Sharpe). 



«The single specimen examined is in worn plumage, so that the color characters 

 can not be satisfactorily made out. In coloration it is of a duller black than most 

 specimens of C. americanus; but Mr. Cory describes the species as "glossy black, 

 showing purple reflections," etc. The measurements given by Mr. Cory are larger 

 than the above, being as follows: "Length (skin), 15 [=381 mm.]; wing, 10.35 

 [362 mm.]; tail, 6 [162.4mm.]; tarsus, 2 [50.8 mm.]; bill, 1.80 [45.7 mm.]." 



