crow. 45 



A.— bid. Orn. i. 156. 14. /3. Gen. Syn. Sup. 78. No. 13. 



This variety is thirteen inches long : irides reddish ; head and 

 neck bluish ash-colour ; upper part of the body and wings the same, 

 but darker ; the eye in a bed of black, lengthening behind as in the 

 other ; breast, belly, and vent pale ferruginous ; quills and tail dusky ; 

 the last pretty long, and rounded at the end ; legs red-brown, scaly, 

 and rough. 



Native place uncertain. On comparing the above with the fol- 

 lowing, or Papuan Crow ; it seems not improbable that they may be 

 Varieties of one of the same species. 



42— PAPUAN CROW. 



Corvus Papuensis, hid. Orn. i. 157. Daud. ii. 236. Shaw's Zool. vii. 354. 

 Choncari de la nouvelle Guinee, Buf. iii. 81. PI. enl. 630. 

 Echenilleur, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxiii. — female. 

 Papuan Crow, Gen. Syn. i. 382. 



LENGTH twelve inches. Bill stout and black, top of the upper 

 mandible somewhat angular ; at the base a few hairs, covering the 

 nostrils ; from thence to the eye a broad black streak ; upper parts of 

 plumage fine blue grey, beneath dusky-white, crossed with dusky 

 narrow streaks on the belly, and vent ; tail five inches and half long, 

 blue grey ; quills darker, and reach on the tail more than one-third ; 

 legs dusky blue. 



One supposed to differ in sex, is much the same as to colour, but 

 the trace to the eye less distinct, the under parts from the chin to the 

 belly crossed with fine dusky streaks ; the belly and vent are plain 

 dusky white. 



Inhabits New Guinea. I find both the above well figured among 

 Sir J. Anstruther's drawings of the birds of India, and the name there 



