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CORVUS NASICUS Temminck. 

 CUBAN CROW. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Entirely black, the plumage with a dull violet 

 gloss; feathers of head, neck, and body gray basally; rictal and post- 

 ocular regions naked; nasal plumes short, inclined upward terminally, 

 exposing the nostrils; bill black, becoming paler (more or less horn- 

 colored) terminally; iris brown; legs and feet black. 



Adult male. — Length (mounted specimen and skin), 406.5-419.5 

 (413); wing, 284.5-286 (285); tail, 165.5-174 (169.5); exposed culmen, 

 58-58.5 (58); depth of bill at nostrils, 21-21.5 (21); tarsus, 53.5-58 (65); 

 middle toe, 38.5-40.5 (39.5). 



Adult female. — Length (mounted specimen), 406.6; wing, 279.5; tail, 

 166.5; exposed culmen, 58; depth of bill at nostrils, 20; tarsus, 53.6; 

 middle toe, 37. 6. 



Island of Cuba, Greater Antilles. ^ 



Corms nasicus Tbmminck, PI. Col., ii, 1838, pi. 413 (type in coll. Leyden Mus.). — 

 Brewer, Proc. Best. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307. — Gdndlach, Eepert. Fisico- 

 Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 290; Journ. fur Orn., 1874, 137.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 

 229; Birds W. I., 1889, 116; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 14, 110, 146 (Cuba; Isle 

 of Pines; Grand Caicos, Bahamas). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 iv, 1892, 303 (San Pablo, Cuba; notes). 



Clorvus} nasicits "Wagler, Isis, 1829, 749. — Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 315. — 

 Baird, Brewer, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 234. — Ridgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 363. 



ICorvus'] nasicus Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 14. 



Mierocorax nasicus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., iii, 1877, 49 (Cuba). 



Corvus americanua (not of Audubon) Lembeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 65. 



Clorvusl americanus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1851, 231, excl. syu. (Cuba). 



Corvus jamaicensis (not of Gmelin) Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., vi, 1853, 316 

 (Cuba); 1859, 296 (do.) ; 1861, 414 (do.).— Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 16 

 (Cuba). — ^Thieneman, Journ. fiir Orn., 1857, 152 (Cuba). 



Corvus ossifragus (not of Wilson) Sohlegbl, Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, 1867, 32, 

 excl. syn. part (Cuba). 



CORVUS LEUCOGNAPHALUS LEUCOGNAPHALUS Daudin. 

 PORTO RICAN CROW. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Entire plumage black, the wings and tail with 

 a violet gloss; feathers of the neck and body pure white at base, this 

 white occupying the basal half or more of the feathers of the hind- 

 neck, upper back, breast, sides, abdomen, and flanks; bill, legs, and 

 feet black; iris red?; length (skins), 439.5-457.5 (447.5); wing, 300- 

 321.5 (308.5); tail, 189.5-203.5 (195); exposed culmen, 53.6-68 (55); 

 depth of bill at nostrils, 19-22.5 (21.5); tarsus, 51.6-65.5 (53.5); mid- 

 dle toe, 38.5-40.5 (40). « 



a Three specimens. 



