Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 742. 
Family. CORVIDM. 
CORVTJS BENNETTI. 
SMALL-BILLED CROW. 
(Plates 695, 597.) 
CORATJS BENNETTI North, Victorian Naturalist, Vol. X^^I., p. 170, Jan. 10th, 1901 : 
Moohlah, Western New South Wales. 
Corms bennetti North, Viet. Naturalist, Vol. XVII., p. 170, 1901 (N.S.W.) ; id., Austr. 
Mas. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. I., p. 3, 1901 ; Carter, Emu, Vol. III., p. 212, 1904 
(N.W.A.); Hall, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. 110, 1906 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. VII., 
p. 25, 1907 (N.W.A.); Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 107, 1908; id., Emu, 
Vol. IX., p. 69, 1909 (N.T.) ; MacgiUivray, ib., Vol. X., pp. 18, 33, 100, 1910 
(N.S.W.); Ogilvie Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXIX., p. 74, 1912; 
MaegilUvray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 185, 1914 (Q.); Ashby, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 220, 
1918 (S.A.); Jackson, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 167, 1919 (N.S.W.); S. A. White, ib., 
p. 198 (S.A.). 
Corms bennetti bennetti Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 442, 1912 ; id.. List Birds 
Austr., p. 314, 1913. 
Corms bennetti bonhoti Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 442, Jan. 31st, 1912; 
Murchison, (Mid) West Australia ; id.. List Birds Austral., p. 314, 1913; H. L. 
Wliite, Emu, Vol. XX., p. 188, 1921 (Nest and Eggs). 
Corms cecilce mamgli Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 52, April 2nd, 1912 : 
Mamgle Creek, Kimberley, North-west Australia ; id., List Birds Austral., p. 314, 
1913. 
DisTEiBonoN. central Australia. Interior of New South Wales, Queensland, West and 
South Australia. 
Adult femde. Bases of all the contour feathers white ; entire upper-surface of the body 
dull metallic-purple, with a few newly moulted rich pm’ple feathers making their 
appearance all over the back, rump, wings and tail; entire under-parts black 
glossed with purple and blue. Eyes white, feet and bill black. Total length 
445 mm. ; culmen 47, wing 295, tail 170, tarsus 55. Figured. Collected at 
Yandamgarra, Mm’chison, West Australia. 
The sexes are alike. 
Sggs. Pour to five eggs form the clutch, sometimes six or seven. A clutch of five eggs 
taken on the 5th of August, 1920, is of a pale greenish-grey ground-colour. 
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