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out Tigre and in the Anseba country I never once saw it. 

 When, therefore, I came upon a Crow "with a white collar 

 on the top of the Wadela and Dalanta plateaux, close to 

 Magdala, at an elevation exceeding 9,000 feet, I confi- 

 dently expected that it must prove a distinct species, 

 and it was only after most careful comparison that I 

 became satisfied of its perfect identity with the form so 

 common on the coast. 



This Crow has a harsh deep croak, but less deep than 

 that of C. affinis. 



four 



i86. Corvultur crassirostris (Riipp.). 



Kaveu, Bruce, vol. v. p. 153. 



Corvus crassirostris, Riipp. Neu. Wirb. p. 18, t. viii. 

 0. albicoUis, Lefebvre, p. 104. 



Corvultur crassirostris, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. No. 142. — HeugL 

 Journ. f. Orn. 1868, p. 317. 



Iris very dark brown ; bill and legs black. 



Common in places on the higher portions of the high- 

 lands, but locally distributed. I first saw it at Fokada, 

 two marches south of Senaf^, again about Dolo and other 

 camps a little north of Antalo, and again abundantly ia 

 the Wadela plateau. At Yasendye, three marches from 

 Magdala, all three species of Crows occurred. 



Corvidtur crassirostris has a deep guttural croak, and 

 appears to be more exclusively carrion-feeding in its 



