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71— SHORT-TAILED CROW. 



Corvus brachyurus, Ind. Orn. i. 166. Lin. i. 158. Gm. Lin. i. 375. Shaw's Zool. vii. 



385. t. 48. Nat. Misc. pi. 553. 

 Merula viridis Moluccensis, Bris. ii. 316. t, 32. f. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 246. 

 Breve de Bengale, Buf. iii. 414. PL enl. 258. Tem. Man. Ed. ii. ^na/. p. Ivii.— Pitta. 

 Short-tailed Crow, Gen. Syn. i. 398. 



SIZE of a Blackbird ; length seven inches. Bill grey brown, 

 corners of the mouth orange ; irides whitish ; head and throat black; 

 over the eye a fulvous stripe ; hind part of the neck, the back and 

 scapulars fine green : all beneath fulvous, under the wings black ; 

 lesser wing coverts shining blue green ; quills black, on the six first a 

 white spot about the middle ; tail not above one inch long, black, 

 tipped with green ; legs dirty red. 



Inhabits the Molucca Isles. 



A.— Merula viridis atricapilla, Bris. ii. 319. pi. 32. f. 2. Id. 8vo. i 

 Breve des Philippines, Buf. iii. 413. PI. enl. 89. Gen. Syn. i. 398. A. 



This is rather smaller, has the plumage more or less green in 

 parts, but differs in having the whole of the head and neck black ; 

 the under parts not fulvous, but pale green, the lower belly black, 

 with the tips of the feathers rose-colour. Bill and legs brown. 



Found with the former. 



B.— Coturnix Capenis, Klein. Av. 115. 



La Breve, Buf. iii. 413. 



Madras Jay, Rati Syn. 195. 12. t. 1. f. 10. 



Short-tailed Crow, Gen. Syn. i. 399. 37. B. Edw. pi. 324. Nat. Misc. pi. 353. 



In this variety the head is not black, but marked merely with 

 three black stripes, one from the forehead, passing over the crown 



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