68 crow. 



and nape to the back, and one on each corner of the mouth 

 down the sides of the neck ; over the eye an orange brown stripe, 

 a white line through the eye, and a second under the black line on 

 the sides of the neck; plumage on the back and wings green, inclin- 

 ing to blue on the lesser wing and tail coverts ; beneath from chin to 

 vent buff-colour ; towards the vent reddish ; quills and tail black ; 

 the former white in the middle, with yellowish or white tips, the 

 latter with green. Bill flesh-colour; legs reddish yellow. 



Inhabits India. — One of these in General Hardwicke's drawings, 

 met with at Futtehghur, in June, called Norunga ; is also found at 

 Ceylon. 



C. — Breve de Madagascar, Buf. iii. 414. 



Merle des Moluques, PL enl. 257. Gen. Syn. i. 399. C. 



The head in this variety is blackish brown at the top, with a little 

 yellow at the back and sides, bounded by a crescent of black, 

 encircling the neck behind ; also two bands of the same, passing 

 beneath the eyes, and terminating at the corners of the mouth ; 

 breast white and yellow ; beneath the body yellow brown ; wings 

 as in Var. A. Tail tipped with blue green. 



D. — Turdus triostegus, Mus. Carls. Jasc. iv. 84. 

 Short-tailed Crow, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 115. G. 



In this bird the head and nape are dull green, with stripes of 

 black, as in Var. B. but that at the angle of the mouth is bifid ; 

 beneath from the chin buff-colour ; towards the vent rose-colour ; 

 shoulders blue, also the ends of the tail feathers; on the quills a 

 patch of white as in the others. 



M. Thunberg brought this from some of the East India Islands. 



