186 OOKTINai. 



Hah. Gulf of Carpentaria, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, 

 Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales. {Bamsay.) 



Family CORVID^. 

 Sub-Family CORVINE. 



Genus COKVUS, Linnceus. 



J-^- CORVUS CORONOIDES, Vigors and Horsfield. 

 (C. australis, Gmelin.) 

 WMte-eyed Cro-w. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 290, p. 475. :^^- * 



" The nests of this species are large bulky structures of 

 sticks and twigs, some often half-an-inch thick. These form 

 the ground work of the nest, which is usually placed in the 

 most inaccessible trees. Einer materials are used for the 

 inner parts, and it is lastly lined with grasses, stringy-bark, and 

 tufts of hair from various dead animals. The eggs are four or 

 five in number for a sitting, of a bright green, strongly blotched 

 with deep black and brown, with a tinge of yellowish wood-brown 

 in some places ; they are from 19|^ to 21 lines in length by 14 or 

 15 lines in breadth. They usually have two broods a year, 

 beginning to breed in August, and continuing until November, or 

 even later in some instances, according to the locality." 



It was in a paper to the Ibis from which the above is extracted, 

 that Dr. Ramsay first drew attention to there being two distinct 

 birds described under the name of C coronoides, a fact since 

 recognized by Mr. Sharpe, who has separated them under the names 

 of Corone australis, and Corvus coronoides. 



C. coronoides can easily be distinguished from Corone australis 

 by being the smaller bird of the two, and having the bases of the 



