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allen’s naturalist’s library. 
Africa below the Sahara, i.e. the Ethiopian region proper. 
Only one Crow is found in the Pacific Islands, viz., Corone 
hawaiensis of the Sandwich Islands : otherwise the Crows are 
not represented in Oceania. 
The genus Corone may be divided into two main groups, the 
Hooded, or Saddle-backed Crows, and the True Crows. Of the 
former group there are five species with grey necks, or mantles, 
while all the rest of the species, some fifteen in number, are 
entirely black. Of the grey-necked section our Hooded Crow 
is the most familiar species. It is found over the greater part 
of Europe, and in Western Siberia is represented by a very 
similar species, Corone sharpii , which winters in North-west- 
ern India. In Persia and Mesopotamia a third species occurs 
( C. capellanus). Of the True Crows, we have but one species in 
Europe, the Carrion Crow, but this is represented in the Indian 
and Australian Regions by many forms, so like one another 
that only a prolonged study can result in a proper understand- 
ing of the species. 
THE HOODED CROW. CORONE CORNIX. 
Corvus cornix, Linn., S. N., i., p. 156 (1766) J Macg., Br. B., i., 
p. 529 (1837); Dresser, B. Eur., iv., p. 543, P 1 - 263, fig-. 2 
(1874); Newt. ed. Yarr., ii., p. 275 (1878); B. O. U. List 
Br. B., p. 69 (1883); Seeb., Hist. Br. B., i., p. 544 (1883); 
Saunders, Man., p. 235 (1889); Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. B., 
pt. xi. (1889). 
Corone cornix, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., iii., p. 31 (1877). 
Adult Male. — Above drab-grey; head, wings, and tail purplish 
black with green reflections ; sides of neck and under surface 
of body drab-grey ; bill and legs black ; iris dark brown. 
Total length, 17 inches; oilmen, 2-4; wing, 12-5; tail, 7-8; 
tarsus, 2 -2. 
Sexes alike in colour. 
Young. — Duller in colour than the adult, the grey dusky, and 
the black dull without glossy reflections ; the lanceolate plumes 
on the throat not developed. 
The grey back of the Hooded Crow and its grey breast 
render it easily recognisable from all its brethren, and these 
