44 crow. 



tongue bifid ; irides white; plumage on the upper parts brownish 

 olive, the shaft of each feather marked with a narrow whitish streak ; 

 under parts of the body dusky white, marked with numerous darker 

 crescents, appearing like waves ; more close on the chin, throat, and 

 breast ; wings and tail brown ; inside of the wing coverts yellowish, 

 marked with black ; of the quills plain, pale yellow half way from 

 the base ; shafts of the quills and tail feathers yellowish, the latter 

 five inches long, even at the end ; the wings, when closed, reach to 

 about the middle of it ; legs brown, one inch and a half long, the 

 outer and middle toe united at the base ; claws stout. 



Inhabits New-Holland. — In the collection of Gen. Davies. 



Another specimen was one inch shorter, the under parts yellowish 

 olive ; each feather margined with darker olive, but on the chin, and 

 neck before the colours seem indistinctly blended, or clouded. 



In a third specimen, in the collection of Mr. Harrison, the chin 

 is plain yellowish white. 



41— NEW-GUINEA CROW. 



Corvus novas Guinea, Ind. Orn.i. 156. Gm. Lin. i. 371. Daud. ii. 235. Shaw's Zool. 



vii. 354. 

 Le Choucas de la nouvelle Guinee, Buf. iii. 80. PI. enl. 629. 

 Echenilleur, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxii. 

 New-Guinea Crow, Gen. Syn. i. 381. 



SIZE of a Jackdaw ; length twelve inches. Bill strong, black- 

 ish : forehead, all round the bill, black, passing in a streak through 

 the eyes, and a little behind them ; head, neck, back, and upper 

 part of the breast, dark ash-colour ; wings dusky, edged with white ; 

 lower part of the breast, the belly, and vent, the lower part of the 

 back, rump, and upper tail coverts white, transversely barred with 

 black ; tail black ; legs short, and dusky. 



Inhabits New-Guinea. 



