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3. Corvus corone L. Carrion-Crow. 
A scarce winter visitor, noted on a few occasions by 
Whitehead and by Backhouse near Ajaccio. Apparently it 
has been known to stay and breed on at least one occasion, 
for Wharton Ibis/ 1876, p. 24) records it as nesting on 
April 30, a rather late date for the south. Dr. Parrot 
(Orn. Jahrb. xxi. p. 126) is somewhat sceptical as to the 
occurrence of this species, but it is scarcely probable that 
all three observers were mistaken. 
4. Corvus frugilegus L. Rook. 
Winter visitor : according to Whitehead very common 
on the east coast, leaving at the end of February and not 
seen after the beginning of March. Parrot noticed several 
birds, which probably belonged to this species, near Biguglia 
on Jan. 7, and also saw a flock of about 20 over the Golo 
Valley. 
5. Colceus monedula L. Jackdaw. 
A scarce winter visiter: Whitehead observed a few in 
company with Rooks in winter on the east coast. 
6. Pica pica (L.). Magpie. 
An accidental autumn and winter visitor, only twice 
recorded. Giglioli mentions one seen near Corte on Sept. 16, 
1877, and Parrot records another from the north-east of 
Corsica near Biguglia on Jan. 7, 1910. 
7. Garrulus glandarius iohnusjE Kleinschmidt. Sar¬ 
dinian Jay. 
Garrulus ichnusce Kleinschmidt, Ornithol. Monatsber. 
xi. p. 92 (1903—Sardinia). 
Garrulus glandarius sardus Tschusi, Ornithol. Jahrbuch, 
xiv. p. 140 (1903—Sardinia). 
Local name : Ghiandaia. Common to both Corsica and 
Sardinia, and tolerably plentiful in the wooded parts of the 
low ground and foot-hills, though in the pine-forests on 
the mountains it is comparatively rare. It is an easily 
recognisable form, and the distinctions between it and the 
British race were pointed out by Backhouse as far back as 1891. 
