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irides brownish yellow. Length 6 1 inches ; of wing 2 T Vths ; tail 3r 3 o ths ; 

 tarsus \ inch; bill to front ,Vths; at gape T 6 ^ths. 



I have only once seen this prettily marked species, in low and thick 

 jungle on the top of the ghauts, near Ajunteh, when I fortunately pro- 

 cured both male and female. I found fragments of various insects in 

 their stomachs, but had no opportunity of observing their manner of 

 feeding or other habits. 



These two last species certainly differ from Muscicapa in some par- 

 ticulars. Their tarsi are distinctly scaled, and the bill (especially of 

 the former species), is stronger, more stiiike-hke, and less depressed ; 

 but their small size, the habits ;is observed of the first species, and ge- 

 neral appearance, led me in the first instance to overlook these differ- 

 ences, and I had not observed that Swainsun had described the first asa 

 Teplirodornis, when I was enumerating the species of thatgeuus. 



Tribe CONIROSTRES. 



Familv CORVIDiE. 



Sub Family CORVIN.E. 

 Genus CORVUS.— Crow. 

 157.-— C. splendens, Vieill. — Patee Koiva, II.— Common Crow. 



This is the common crow of India, and is most abundant every where, 

 roosting on high frees, and spreading in the n orning through villages, 

 and cantonments, &c. It is a most, familiar, noisy and impudent bird 

 It breeds on trees in the hot weather. 



15R. — C. macrorl ynchos, Wagl. — C. culminalus, Sykes. — C. cor one, 

 var., Frank!. Cat — Dheree Kowa or Kurrial, H. — Large black crow. — 

 Indian Carrion Crow. 



This species, ihough not so numerous as the last, is yet very abun- 

 dant, and nearly equally troublesome and impudent. It partakes more 

 readily than the last of carrion, and I think the King Crows appear to 

 pursue it with greater hatred than the common crow, so it probably 



