38 crow. 



30— AUSTRALASIAN CROW. 



SIZE of a Crow. Bill large, curved the whole of its length to 

 the point, as in the Cornish Chough ; plumage in general black and 

 glossy, the feathers of the head short ; the wings reach one-third on 

 the tail, which is cuneiform, or greatly rounded in shape at the end ; 

 legs stout, made like those of a Crow. 



Inhabits New-Holland : in the collection of Mr. Brogden, and 

 in that of the Linnaean Society. 



31— SYDNEY CROW. 



SIZE of a Jackdaw. Bill as in the Magpie, but not quite equal 

 in strength, and somewhat bent ; tip of the upper mandible brown ; 

 general colour of the plumage black ; some of the inner lesser quills 

 white ; tail much rounded ; legs stout and black. 



In Mr. Bullock's Museum, from New-Holland. Shot at Sydney. 



32 — BLUE CROW. 



Corvus cyanus, Ind. Orn. i. 159. Gm. Lin. i. 373. Pallas It. iii. 694. Daud. ii. 238. 



Shaw's Zool. vii. 362. Nat. Misc. pi. 829. 

 Corvus melanocephalus, Daud. ii. 24) . 

 Pie bleue k tete noire, Levail. Ois. ii. pi. 58. 

 Blue Crow, Gen. Spi. i. 394. Id. Sup. ii. Ill, 



SIZE small ; length from eight to twelve inches. Bill black ; 

 top of the head to the nape glossy deep black ; body ash-colour, 

 paler beneath ; wings and tail most beautiful blue ; the last very long 

 and cuneiform, in shape like that of a Magpie, the feathers white 



