APPENDIX. 
THE WHITE-VENTED CROW. 
CoRvus Graculinus. 
Ccrutis niger, remigiim re5lricumqiie baji apiceque caudce alhls. 
Black Crow, with the bafes of the wing and tail feathers, and the tip of 
the tail, white. 
This bird is about tbe fize of a Magpye ; and in fhape is 
not much unlike one, except that the tail is not cuneated, 
but has all the feathers of equal length. The bird is entirely 
black, except the vent, the bafe of the tail feathers, the 
bafe of the wing feathers, and the extremity of the tail, 
which are white. The fmall part of the white bafe of the 
wing feathers gives the appearance of a white fpot when the 
wings are clofed. The beak is very ftrong ; the upper 
mandible flightly emarginated near the tip, and the lower 
mandible is of a pale colour towards the tip. The capif- 
trurn reverfum^ or fet of biiftles, which are fituated forward 
on the bafe of the upper mandible in mod of the birds of this 
genus, is not very confpicuous in this fpecies ; but the 
whole habit and general appearance of the bird fufficiently 
juflily its being regarded as a fpecies of Corvus. 
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