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species. The bill is strong, somewhat less than in the Crow, though 

 clearly characteristic of that Genus, and black; plumage dusky 

 brown, with blue and reddish glosses in various parts ; the outer tail 

 feathers shorter than the others, and the whole of them pale at the 

 tips ; legs strong and black. 



This was met with in New-Holland, and the only one of the kind 

 seen there. — Mr. Lambert. 



36.— KENT'S CROW, 



SIZE of a Crow ; length sixteen inches ; breadth thirty-two. 

 Bill stout, two inches and half long, and black ; plumage in general 

 brown black ; the first quill three inches shorter than the second, and 

 this one inch shorter than the third, all these tipped with white, but 

 seven or eight of them marked with white within at the base ; several 

 of the secondaries also fringed with white at the tips ; the tail is eight 

 inches long, all but the two middle feathers tipped with white, which 

 reaches to double the extent on the inner webs ; the quills, when 

 closed, reach full three-fourths on the tail ; legs black, stout, the 

 middle claw furnished with a notch or tooth. 



Inhabits Kent's Group in New-Holland. One of these was in the 

 collection of the late Gen . Da vies. 



37— NEW-CALEDONIAN CROW. 



Corvus Caledonicus, Ind. Orn. i. 154. Gm. Lin. i. 367. Daud. ii. 231: Shaw's Zool< 



yii. 350. 

 New-Caledonian Crow, Gen, Syn. i. 377. 



LENGTH above fifteen inches. Bill fourteen lines long, stout, 

 and black, slightly toothed, and the end yellowish; irides pale 



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