crow. 47 



44.— BLACK-BREASTED CROW. 



Corvus melanogaster, Ind. Orn. Snp. xxv. 

 Black-breasted Crow, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 371. 



SMALLER than the last ; length ten inches. Bill black, with 

 a minute notch at the tip ; upper parts of the plumage from the 

 crown to the tail coverts, and the wings, fine pale blue grey ; face 

 beyond the eyes, chin, throat, and breast black ; the rest of the under 

 parts white ; outer part of the wing and quills black, edged with 

 white ; tail and legs black. 



Inhabits Port Jackson ; has much affinity to the last. 



One of these, in the collection of Lord Stanley, is one inch 

 longer, and the nostrils, and sides of the head, taking in the eyes, 

 black ; beneath, to the breast, the feathers fringed on the margins 

 with whitish, and on the chin much more so, as to appear altogether 

 grey ; breast and sides white, transversely barred with narrow black 

 lines, two on each feather; under wing coverts, belly, and vent 

 pure white ; tail about half the length of the bird, and somewhat 

 forked, the outer feather being a trifle the longest ; the quills reach 

 about three-fifths on the tail ; legs black, weaker in proportion than 

 in the Black-faced Crow, yet may probably be a further variety. 



45— WHXTE-NAPED CROW. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Bill one inch and a quarter long, 

 stout, strait, except at the end, where it is a trifle curved; nostrils 

 elongated, colour pale blue, with a dusky tip; tongue short, pointed; 

 plumage merely black and white ; back part of the neck, lower half 

 of the back and rump, the belly and vent white; on the wing 

 coverts a long, curved, broad, white streak ; the tail, which is 



