SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
'Oflh 
• • a c cor* 
[Hybrid between C. sharpn ana 
lv P 1 * 6 ” 
[A specimen in wliicb C. corone lai 0 e 
No. 1070. Yarkand, November 21, 1873. 
tbe latter element predominating.] 
No. 1077. Yarkand, November 28, 1873. 
dominates.] 
No. 1279. Kasbgbar, January 26, 1874. [Pure-bred Hooded Crow.] ^ 
Tbe Yarkand birds are like the Siberian ones, much paler and more dove-colour 
C. cor nix of Europe, but yet not light enough for C. capellcmus. _ p^std' 11 
Dr. Scully says that the Hooded Crow was very common in the plains 0 
Turkestan during the winter, when it was seen daily at Kashgliar and Yarkan , c 
with the Rook and the Black Crows. w it at * 
Colonel Biddulph’s note is as follows " Is a winter bird. We first found th0 
in November, and towards Yarkand it became commoner, being mixed up wi 1 g ^ r e 
.. i , tt- 4-^. « /InniliOO! 1YL oil J 
jet® 
Crow, and all through the winter about Kashgliar it was common to a degiee ^ th° 
and everywhere. When we went towards the Pamir it disappeared diiectly we » _ peop^ 
hills, and had left the plains of Yarkand altogether when we returned in May. ^ y a ngi 
said they went eastward.” Dr. Scully also states that he saw the species firs jt 
Hissar in October, and it migrated from Yarkand about the end of March, to ie I . s peci eS 
said, to the hills near Aksu, where it is reported to breed. The Turki name for 
is “Ala Kargha,” the “Variegated Crow.” foiiU d 1 
This same pale form of Hooded Crow extends to Siberia, where Mi. Sf? n °w of i’ 01 ' 819 ’ 
breeding with C. corone at Krasnoyarsk. It also appears to be the ordinary Cro 
and reaches to Gilgit and the extreme north-west of India in winter. 
33. Cobone corone. 
lbis> l8/5 ' 
Corvus corone, Linn. S. N. i. p. 155 (1766) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 63 (1873) ; Dressei, g oin e)'® r 
p. 237; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 156 (1876) ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 76; Scully, ibid, p- 5/ W ‘ 
& Tancre, MT. orn. Ycr. Wien, 1883, p. 88 ; Badde, Ornis, iii. p. 473 (1887) ; Oates, 
Ind., Birds, i. p. 16 (1889). 
Corone corone (L.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 36 (1877). 
Corvus culminatus, Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 157 (1876). 
No. 656. Leli, September 9, 1873. 
No. 1067. Yarkand, November 28, 1873. 
No. 1278. Kashgliar, January 26, 1874. ^ g c ulV 
I cannot see any difference between the two specimens of Crows collected by ^ ^ 0 ul>f 
and now in the Hume Collection. They are both, to my mind, C. corone, al ^ 
C. culminatus crosses into Yarkand. . ^ 
Dr. Scully found the Carrion-Crow very common throughout the plaiu® ^ e ggs- 
Turkestan, where it lives permanently and breeds. He gives a description of 
34. Corone macrorhyncha. 
17 a 8 
Corvus macrorhynchus, Wagl. Syst. Av. Corvus, sp. 3 (1827) ; Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, 
Corvus levaillanti, Less. Traite, p. 328 (1831) ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 77 ; Scully, ibid. p. 5 ^ pg 1i)‘ 
Corvus intermedins, Adams, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 171; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p 
Corone macrorhyncha, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 38 (1877). 
Corone levaillanti, Sharpe, t. c. p. 39 (1877). 
Corvus culminatus (nec Sykes), Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 62. 
