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CORVIDJE. 



STIRPS v.— FREGILINA? 



The genus Pyrrhocorax Cuvier (vide volume xiii. 

 pt. ii. p. 194.), is placed by Mr. Vigors in this stirps 

 of the present family, and apparently with propriety, 

 as its habits are more allied to those of the Corvidae 

 than of the Merulidse, in which family I have placed 

 it, according to Cuvier's classification in the R^gne 

 Animal. 



GENUS CXC— FREGILUS, Cuvier. CHOUGH. 



Rostrum capite longi^is, basi 

 plumis brevibus antror- 

 sum decumbentibus tec- 

 tum, integrum, subgracile, 

 cylindricum, arcuatum, 

 acutum. 



Cor AC I AS {pars), Brisson. 



BeaJc longer than the head, 

 its base clothed with short 

 feathers pointing forwards, 

 intire, rather slender, cy- 

 lindric, arcuated, acute. 



Sp. 1. Fr. graculus. 

 Corvus graculus. Shaw, v. vii. p. 378. — Britain and Europe. 



Sp. 2. Fr. affinis. 



Corvus affinis. Shatv, v. vii. p. 381. — New Holland. 

 Sp. 3. Fr. Enca. 



Fr. supra cyaneo-niger nitens, siibtus ohscurior; Jronte malts 

 antice guldqiie atris. 



Chough above glossy blue-black, beneath obscure ; with the fore- 

 head, cheeks anteriorly and throat black. 



Frigelus Enca. Linn. Trans. (Horsf.) v. xiii.^. 164. 



Inhabits Java. Length seventeen inches : plu- 

 mage, generally, glossy blue-black, with the under 



