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39— WHITE-CHEEKED CROW. 



Corvus olivaceus, Ind- Orn. Sup. xxvi. 

 White-cheeked Crow, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 118. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill one inch long, curved and dusky, 

 base bristly, and the nostrils half covered with feathers ; irides straw- 

 colour ; crown black, the feathers elongated ; the rest of the head 

 and neck before to the breast black ; on each jaw a large white patch ; 

 and on the chin and middle of the breast some mixture of white ; all 

 the upper parts of the body, wings, and tail olive-green ; quills rusty 

 brown ; tail cuneiform, dusky, the two middle feathers six inches 

 long, the outmost only three and a half; the two outer feathers tipped 

 with white; the wings reach one-third on the tail ; legs brown. 



Inhabits New-Holland ; differs from the White-eared Jay, in not 

 having the forehead whitish, nor does the white patch come so near 

 the eye as in that bird; besides, the tail being cuneiform, forbids 

 further comparison. 



A. — Size of the former. Bill compressed on the sides ; nostrils 

 imperfectly covered with reflected bristles, colour black; plumage 

 in general much as in the other ; a large patch of white extending 

 the whole length of the under jaw ; feathers of the throat fringed 

 with white ; breast, and beneath reddish brown, marbled on the 

 former with black and white ; tail as in the other. 



Inhabits New South Wales. — In the collection of Lord Stanley. 



40— WAVE-BREASTED CROW. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Bill stout, bent, with a small notch near 

 the tip, about one ineh long, and the nostrils covered with feathers; 



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