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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Ceylon and the Andaman Islands'; in the Indo-Burmese countries and 
China^ extending to Eastern Siberia. 
To the south its range extends down the Malayan peninsula to 
Sumatra^ Java^ Borneo_, Flores^ Timor and Bali ; and it is probably spread 
over the whole of Siam and the adjacent countries, for Dr. Tiraud records 
it from Cochin China. 
This Crow is found not only in the forests and the remoter parts of the 
jungle, but it also frequents towns and villages in considerable numbers. 
It associates with the ordinary House-Crow; and the two species have 
precisely the same habits. 
The nesting-season commences in the middle of J anuary, and lasts 
throughout February. The nest, a large structure made of twigs and 
lined with some soft material such as hair or grass^ is placed near the 
summit of a tolerably large tree well away from human habitations. The 
eggs, four or five in number, are green, marked with various shades of 
brown. 
371. COEVUS SPLENDENS. 
THE INDIAN HOUSE-CROW. 
Corvus splendens, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. viii. p. 441 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 
p. 298 ; JBI. ^ Wald. B. Burm. p. 86 ; Hmne, S. F. viii. p. 105 ; Scully, S. F. viii. 
p. 326 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 349. Corvus impudicus (Hodgs.), Hume, S. F. 
i. p. 206 ; id. Nests and Eggs, p. 413. Corone splendens, 8harpe, Cat. Birds 
B. Mus. iii. p. 33. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead, crown, lores, cheeks, chin and 
throat deep glossy black ; nape, ear-coverts, the whole neck, upper back 
and breast light ashy brown ; wings, tail and remainder of upper plumage 
glossy black ; lower plumage from the breast dull brownish black. The 
feathers of the throat are lanceolate ; and the whole of the black portions 
of the plumage are highly resplendent with purple -blue and greenish 
reflexions. 
Iris dark brown ; legs and bill black. 
Length 17*5, tail 7, wing 11, tarsus 1*9, bill from gape 2. The female 
is usually rather smaller. 
The Indian House-Crow is said by Mr. Blyth to be the Common Crow 
of Akyab, and to have occurred also in Kyoukphyoo. It is probably spread 
over the greater portion of Arrakan, not however crossing the mountains 
to the eastward. 
Out of Burmah it is distributed over Chittagong and Assam and the 
whole continent of India and Ceylon ; but its range to the east has yet to 
be determined. At Bhamo the next species occurs. Mr. Sharpe says he 
