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47. -BLUE AND WHITE CROW. 



Corvus cyanoleucos, Ind. Om. Sup. xxv. 

 Blue and white Crow, Gen. Syn. Sup.W. 117. 



RATHER smaller than a Magpie. Bill yellow brown, formed 

 somewhat as in the Thrush, with very few bristles at the base, and less 

 stout than in the Crow Tribe ; the forehead, chin, and throat white ; 

 breast, and all beneath the same ; from behind the eye a streak of 

 white, growing broader as it passes down on each side of the neck, 

 at the bottom of which it bends forward to join the breast ; top of 

 the head, all the neck behind, to beyond the middle of the back, 

 deep blue; wings brownish blue, the ends of the quills brown ; the 

 inner half of the wing coverts white, forming a broad streak ; lower 

 part of the back, the rump, and tail white, but the ends of the 

 feathers of the last are deep blackish blue ; on the two middle ones 

 to about one-third, occupying less of the feathers as they are more 

 outward ; tail rather long, even at the end, and the wings reach to 

 about three-fourths of it; legs brown. 



Inhabits New South Wales, there called Karrock, met with in 

 April. It is esteemed a rare species. 



48— BLACK AND WHITE CROW. 



Corvus melanoleucus, Ind. Orn. Sup. xxv. 

 Black and white Crow, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 117. 



SIZE of the last; length twenty inches. Bill and legs dusky 

 black ; irides bluish ; chin, throat, middle of the greater quills, rump, 

 vent, and middle of all but the two centre tail feathers, white ; the 

 rest of the plumage black. 



Inhabits New South Wales, chiefly seen in May. 



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