30 CROW. 



grey, and have the ends deeply tipped with black; the wings when 

 closed, reach about one-fifth thereon ; legs black. 



Inhabits India, found near Calcutta, but not very common; is 

 called by the Bengalese, Harri Chacha ; the women imagine when- 

 ever they hear this bird calling, that it forebodes the approach of 

 religious mendicants, who, by partaking in the fare prepared for the 

 family, will clear the pots used in cooking ; from which circumstance 

 its native name is derived ; builds on large trees, and more than one at 

 a time is seldom observed. 



I owe the above to Dr. Buchanan. It may be supposed to vary; 

 as that described from Lady Impey's drawings had the breast and 

 belly ash-colour ; middle of the wings white ; in these drawings the 

 name given to it is the Vagabond. 



Among the drawings of Sir J. Anstruther, I observe three or 

 four different representations, varying considerably from each other, 

 in the different shades of brown, though the general division of 

 colours is the same; in one which appears to be most complete, the 

 two middle tail feathers are double the length of the others. The 

 name given to it in the Persian tongue is Makoka ;* is called also 

 Laut. 



In another specimen the feathers round the bill and chin are 

 deeper black than the rest ; bend of the wing yellow. 



One figured in Col. Hardwicke's fine collection of Drawings of 

 Indian birds, was sixteen inches long, said to be a male, had a lead- 

 coloured bill, with a black point; the two middle tail feathers ex- 

 ceeded the rest by three inches, were pale ash from the base to as 

 far as the ends of the adjoining, then white for near two inches, and 

 finally black for more than one inch; the side feathers white for the 

 greater part from the base, then black, with the ends white, but the 

 black occupying most space on the outer feathers. 



* The Antiguan Coucal also bears this name. 



