THE BURMESE HOUSE-CROW. 
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has received a specimen from Malacca ; bat I think the occurrence of this 
Crow in the Malay peninsula requires confirmation. 
The habits and mode of nidification o£ this species are the same as those 
of the next. 
372. CORVUS INSOLENS. 
THE BURMESE HOUSE-CROW. 
Corvus insolens, Hume, S. F. ii. p. 480, iii. p. 144 ; Wald. in Bl. B. Burnt, p. 87 ; 
Oates, S. F. v. p. 159 ; Wardlaw JRamsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 459 ; Anders. Yunnan 
Exped. p. 589 Hume 8j- Dav. 8. F. vi. p. 380 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 105. 
Corone insolens, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iii. p. 34. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead^ crown_, chin and throat glossy 
black ; back of the neck and its sides ashy brown ; ear-coverts and the 
whole lower plumage from the throat dull brownish black ; wings and tail 
and remainder of the plumage deep glossy black. The feathers of the throat 
are lanceolate ; and the whole of the black portions of the plumage are highly 
glossed with purple,, bhie^ and green^ varying according to the light 
thrown on them. 
The dimensions are the same as those of C. splendens. The iris is dark 
brown ; the legs and bill black. 
The Burmese House-Crow has been very properly separated from the 
Indian species by Mr. Hume. No one who is acquainted with both 
species will fail to recognize their specific distinctness. The Burmese 
bird has the back of the neck of such a dark shade of grey or ashy brown 
that the bird in life appears to be entirely black, whereas in the Indian 
bird the light grey of the same parts is most conspicuous. 
This Crow is spread over the whole of Pegu. It extends through 
Arrakan up to the northern portion, where C. splendens appears to replace 
it. It probably occurs throughout Native Burmah, as Dr. Anderson 
procured it at Bhamo. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay does not refer to it as 
occurring in Karennee ; but it is likely to be found there. In Tenasserim 
it is met with as far as Mergui^ but does not appear to go south of 
this town. It has been sent from Siam, where it is probably abundant ; 
and Dr. Tiraud states that this species is the common House-Crow of 
Cochin China. 
There is a specimen in the British Museum from Upper Assam ; but 
Colonel Godwin- Austen records C. splendens, and not this species^ from 
the Dafla hills in that province. 
The House-Crow of Burmah, like its congener in India, is extremely 
abundant in all towns and villages; and even an isolated house in the 
