362 Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, fyc. 
sent an Arab up, and obtained three eggs, two of C. cornix, and 
one much smaller and altogether different in size, shape, and 
colour, which he called that of the “Abou ghraab” (“ Father 
of the Crow”). 
Jan. 27th. Three eggs of C. cornix and one of C, glandarius in 
the same nest, the young birds alive in the eggs. The difference 
in the position of the toes was distinctly visible in them. A female 
C. glandarius shot in the same grove. Another nest was brought 
to me, containing three young C. cornix and one C. glandarius. 
Feb. 24th. Near Assouan (first capture), found three eggs of 
C. cornix and one of C. glandarius; and in the same grove ob¬ 
tained four young C. glandarius , all of different ages, from as 
many nests of C. cornix. 
The same day, found two eggs of C. cornix and one of C. 
Feb. 25th. Near Kom Ombos, found two eggs of C. glandarius 
and one of C. cornix , in the same nest; and in another, three of 
C. cornix and one of C. glandarius. 
March 2nd. Esnek. Two eggs of C. cornix and two of C. 
glandarius (from the same nest) were brought to me to the boat ; 
and the same day I found two young C. glandarius in one nest, 
and two others in two other nests of C. cornix. 
March 5th. Luxor. Found two eggs of C. glandarius and 
two of C. cornix in the same nest. 
March 5th. Karnak. Two eggs of C. glandarius in two nests 
of C. cornix. 
March 11th. Near Siout. Two young C. glandarius in nests 
of C. cornix (one of these is still alive, in my possession). 
March 16th. Three of C. cornix and one of C. glandarius 
brought to the boat. 
March 10th. Found an egg in a C. glandarius on dissection, 
nearly ready for exclusion, the measurements of which coincided 
with several of the above-mentioned eggs. 
In colouring and markings these eggs present the same 
varieties as those described by the Rev. H. B. Tristram as found 
by him in Algeria. 
I have not thought it necessary to particularize the instances 
