34 On the Distribution of European Birds. QJan. 



wards notice the European genera in regard to their distribution, but 

 in the mean time shall confine our attention to the distribution 

 of the species. In regard to the species included in the genera 

 Corvus, Sturnus, &c. Mr. Swainson states their number at twenty- 

 one found in Europe, thirteen of which, or more than one half, 

 habitually reside ; four occur in Northern and Central Africa ; one 

 common to Europe, Asia, and Africa; and three found in America. 

 Nor are the above statements even in regard to the species cor- 

 rect. Thus of the seventeen species, for we cannot make out 

 more, included in the genera Corvus fregilus, Pyrrhocorax gar- 

 rulus, Nucifraga, Pastor, and Sturnus, six are proper to Europe ; 

 four common to Europe and Asia ; one common to Europe and Africa ; 

 three common to Europe, Asia, and Africa; two common to Europe, 

 Asia, and North America ; and one common to Europe, Asia, Aus- 

 tralasia (?) and North America. We mark Australasia with an inter- 

 rogation, for the occurrence of the Corvus corone in that Continent 

 seems doubtful. It is upon the authority of M. Lesson, 34 that we make 

 the statement ; who, however, we rather think has confounded with it 

 a nearly allied, but quite distinct species. M. T'emminck 35 has also in his 

 Catalogue of the Birds of Japan given the Garrulus glandarius, and 

 marks it as the Japanese variety, which it undoubtedly ought only to 

 be considered, for the characters which it presents vary so little from 

 those of the European, and are of such a trivial nature. It is not to 

 be confounded with the Garrulus bispecularis of Vigors, 36 a well- 

 marked species, also presenting a close affinity to the European, it 

 however is confined to Northern India. In the Garrulus melanoceph- 

 aim, Bon. 37 we have another species presented, bearing a close 

 affinity to the European, but it not only differs in several characters, 

 but also, like the two Indian species, has a quite different distribu- 

 tion, representing in its locality the common Garrulus glandarius?* 



34 Ann. de Sci. Nat. 



35 Man. d' Ornith. vol. iii. Introd. 



36 Proceed. Zool. Soc. Pt. i. p. 7. Gould's Cent. 



37 Gen. Mem. of the Acad, of Turin, vol. xxxvii. p. 298. 



38 Strickland on the Birds of Asia Minor. Proc. of Zool. Pt. iv. p. 97. 



(To be Continued.) 



