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it propitious if seen upon the day which concludes the Dussorah, or 



Doorga Pooja festivals, and discharge their matchlocks to put it on 



the wing. The Birmahs annually send parties to procure the feathers 



of this bird, and of the painted Kingfisher."— C. W. Smith's MS. 



Notes. 



105. Genus Corvus, Auctorum. 



Sp. C. Dauricus. — White-breasted Crow. 



Corvus Dauricus. Gm. Lin. I. 367. Turt. Lin, L 219. Stephens' 

 Shaw's Zool. XIV. 69. 



White-breasted Crow., Lath. Gen. Hist. III. 17. Shaw's Gen. Zool. 

 VIL 349. 



*' The Indian Crow is more social and familiar than any of its 

 tribe in Britain ; like the sparrow it is every where, on the house top, 

 in the verandah, even venturing to take a snatch at the breakfast table', 

 yet always awake to danger, it is off at a moment's warning." — C. W. 

 Smith's MS. Notes. 



This bird is very common wherever I have been on the plains of 

 India ; but Calcutta seems to be its head-quarters, where it is to be 

 seen at all times of the year, upon the houses, in the fields, and on the 

 shipping in the river. It awakes before day-light on the gun being fired 

 in Fort William, and by its incessant cawing, seems determined that 

 every body else shall awake likewise. Latham's drawing is bad ; and 

 the description scarcely agrees with our bird. If this be the " common 

 crow of India" of Col. Sykes' catalogue, it is in his opinion the Cor- 

 vus Splendens of Vieillot : but with which it also does not agree. 



106. 

 Genus Pttlonorynchus, Kuhl. 

 Sp. P. Violaceus. 

 Presented by Captain Pemberton. 



107. 



Fam. BucERiD^. 



Genus Buceros, Auctorum. 



Sp. Platyrynchus. 



Flat-crowned Hornhill. 



Chinese collection. 



