CROW. 
Wing 315, tarsus 61, bill 56, tail 189 mm. Irides umber, feet and bill black.” 
The former would be “ hennetti in every detail.” 
Barnard also recorded “ Gorvus coronoides Crow. Very common, breeding 
freely in the gidgea and coolibab trees along water courses during February 
and March; from the Brunnette Downs, Northern Territory,” but gave no 
details of measurement, nor did H. L. White from the King River district. 
Macgillivray wrote from the Claudie River district, New Queensland: 
“ Gorvus cecilvB queenslandicus. On the 24th November, whilst IVIr. Kershaw 
was skinning a wallaby at our top camp, a Crow’s voice was heard—a harsh, 
short ‘Ahi, ahi,’ Two flew over. IVIr. McLennan had previously obtained 
specimens, and several since. All these have white irides, unlike the Crows 
of southern parts, whose irides are hazel. We saw more of these birds at the 
sandalwood landing, and over the beach opposite Lloyds’ Island. IVIr. McLennan 
found them too quite numerous on the Archer River.” 
I have outlined the history of this form, the “ Crow ” of Australian 
ornithologists, in connection with the two preceding, and it is apparently 
restricted to Northern Tropical AustraHa, and four subspecies may be here 
noted for information: 
Gorvus ceciUe cecilce Mathews. 
North-west Australia, Northern Territory. 
Gorvus cecilce prohleema Mathews. 
North-west Australia (Derby southward). 
This is smaller, averaging 335, against the above 355, while the bill is shorter. 
Gorvus cecilce queenslandicus Mathews. 
Northern Queensland. 
As shown by Stresemann this is smaller than the two preceding and has 
a larger bill than C. hennetti, with which Stresemann confused it. 
(?) Gorvus cecilce hartogi Mathews. 
I differentiated this, as Carter states it is quite a different form, and 
Whitlock places it under C. hennetti. It is possibly an island form of this 
species, simulating the interior C. hennetti, but more material should be studied 
by Australian ornithologists from Dirk Hartog Island, the type locality. 
The type of Gorvus cecilce was described from Napier Broome Bay 
(Stresemann writes Broome-Bar, which is altogether wrong, as there is a 
place called Broome not far away), and this part of North-west Austr e i f 
really Northern Territory as regards birds, and in such cases as this the 
forms are identical and differ from the North-west forms from Derby, North¬ 
west AustraHa. 
Mr. Tom Carter has written under the name Gorvus coronoides : “ Crows 
were extremely abundant on Dirk Hartog Island, but as a great many of them 
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