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whole face, including the eyes, black ; hind part of the head, nape, 

 and neck fine ash-colour; chin, throat, sides of the neck and breast, 

 brown ; back the same, growing pale ash-colour towards the rump ; 

 belly and thighs paler ash ; vent pale red ; wings black, about the 

 middle an irregular white spot ; tail cuneiform, the two middle 

 feathers seven inches long, and ash-coloured ; the others black, 

 shortening by degrees, the outer one being only four inches and a 

 half; legs black. 



Inhabits India : common also about Macao, in China ; chatters 

 like a Magpie ; is apt to vary much in plumage. 



54— PLAIN CROW. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill one inch long, a little compressed, 

 with a slight notch at the tip, and a few hairs at the base ; nostrils 

 covered with reflected bristles ; the crown, and below the eye on 

 each side ash-colour ; body above dusky black brown, towards the 

 rump ash-colour ; back and wings rufous brown ; beneath dusky 

 white ; chin and throat streaked with ash-colour ; tail four inches 

 long, even at the end, and with its coverts ash-colour ; quills dusky 

 with pale edges ; legs black ; the quills reach halfway on the tail. 



Place and manners unknown. 



55— HUNTING CROW. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Bill strong, upper mandible crooked 

 at the tip ; colour orange ; at the base, above the gape, fine black 

 bristles ; nostrils covered with reflected feathers ; tongue cleft ; eyelids 

 orange; hides crimson; general colour of the plumage sky-blue, 

 with a tinge of verdigrise on the belly and sides ; through each eye 



