48 crow. 



rounded at the end, white for three-fourths of the length from the 

 base ; the rest at the end black ; the remaining part of the plumage is 

 also black ; legs ash-colour. 



Inhabits New South Wales. — In the collection of Mrs. Sherard. 

 Known there by the name of Darning. — General Davies. 



46.— WHITE-CROWNED CROW. 



Corvus leucolophus, White-crowned Crow, Lin. Trans, vol. xi. 208. pi. 15. 



LENGTH eleven inches and three quarters ; size of a Jackdaw. 

 Bill one inch and a quarter long from the gape, and black ; on each 

 side of the upper mandible four or five black hairs; nostrils small, 

 oval, not covered, but the short feathers of the front turn forwards, 

 and approach very near them ; forehead black, passing to the eye, 

 and just surrounding it above, but beneath proceeding as a streak 

 behind it for more than half an inch ; the rest of the head, neck, 

 and breast white ; feathers of the crown longer than the rest, so as 

 to form a fine crest, and stand nearly upright ; the rest of the body, 

 wings, and tail, ferruginous brown, and between the white on the 

 neck and the brown, a band of rufous, surrounding the bird ; tail 

 four inches long, even, the feathers rounded at the end ; the quills reach 

 very little beyond the base ; legs stout, pale ash-colour ; claws large, 

 black, the hind one much larger than the others. 



Inhabits India, by the name of Rawil-Khuy, or Rawil-Kuhy. 

 General Hardwicke. By the English is called the Laughing Crow ; 

 they assemble in numbers from twenty to fifty, and make a noise 

 exactly resembling many persons laughing together. This bird is 

 common in the forests between Hurdwar and Sireenagur ; it feeds on 

 the fruits which it there meets with. 



