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Catalogue of the Birds 



irides brownish yellow. Length 6^ inches ; of wing 2T"'^ths ; tail SyVths ; 

 tarsus ^ inch; bill to front ,Vths; at gape-j-^^ths. 



1 have only once seen this prettily marked species, in low and thick 

 jungle on the top of the ghauts, near Ajunteh, when I fortunately pro- 

 cured both male and female. I found fragments of various insects in 

 their stomachs, but had no opportunity of observing their manner of 

 feeding or other habits. 



These two last species certainly differ from Muscicopa in some par- 

 ticulars. Their tarsi are distinctly scaled, and the bill (f^speciully of 

 the former species), is stronger, more dAr/'A-e-like, and less depressed ; 

 but their small size, the habits as observed of the first species, and ge- 

 neral appearance, led me in the first instance to overlook these differ- 

 ences, and I had not observed that Swaitison had described the first asa 

 Te^hrodoniisf when I was enumerating the species of that genus. 



Tribe CONIROSTRES. 



Family COEVID^E. 



Sub Family CORVINiE. 

 Genus COHYVS.—Crow. 



157. — C. spIendenSf YieiW.^Patee Kowa, H.— Common Crow, 



This is the common crow of India, and is most abundant every where? 

 roosting on high trees, and spreading in the n)orning through villages, 

 and cantonments, &c. It is a most familiar, noisy and impudent bird 

 It breeds on trees in the hot weather. 



158. — C. macrorhynchoSf Wagl. — C. culminatus, Sykes. — C. corone^ 

 var,, Frankl. Cat. — Dheree Kowa or Kurrial, H. — Large black crow, — 

 Indian Carrion Crow. 



This species, though not so numerous as the last, is yet very abun- 

 dant, and nearly equally troublesome and impudent. It partakes more 

 readily than the last of carrion, and I think the King Crows appear to 

 pursue it with greater hatred than the common crow, so it probably 



