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TEMIA CROW. 



Corvus Temia. C. nigerf purpurea viridique nit ens, rostro craSso^ 

 Cauda longa cuneata. 

 . Black Crow witl> purple and green reflexions, thick bill, and 

 long cuneated tail. 

 Le Temia. Levaill, ois. 



Size of a Thrush, but longer bodied : bill and 

 legs black: feathers surrounding the bill short and 

 velvet-like: those on the throat of similar appear- 

 ance: all the plumage of the bird is of a fine and 

 silky nature. Described by^ Levaill ant from a pre- 

 served specimen in a collection at Amsterdam, and 

 said to have been sent from Batavia. 



SHINING CROW. 



Corvus splendidus. C. cupreo viridique nitens, remigibus secun-* 



dariis extus albis, cauda elongata cuneata. 

 Coppery-green shining Crow, with the secondary wing- feathers 



outwardly white, and lengthened cuneated tail. 

 L'Eclatant. Levaill. ois. 



I TAKE the liberty of placing this bird, as well 

 as some others described by Monsr. Levaillant, in 

 the present genus, without enquiring with critical 

 exactness into the strict propriety of their arrange- 

 ment j it being impossible in a general work to be 

 very minute in disquisitions of this nature; and 

 indeed it must be observed once for all, that the 

 vast increase of modern Ornithology renders the 



