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C0RVIN7E. 
Hob. Gulf of Carpentaria, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, 
Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales. {Ramsay.) 
Family CORVID-®. 
Sub-Family CORVIN®. 
Genus CORVUS, Linnceus. 
COllVUS CORONOIDES, Vigors andUmfield. 
(C. australis, Gmelin.) 
White-eyed Crow. 
Gould, llandbk. Bds. Aust., Yol. i., sp. 290, p. 475. 
“ The nests of this species are large bulky structures of 
sticks and twigs, some often lnilf-an-inch thick. These form 
the ground work of the nest, which is usually placed in the 
most inaccessible trees. Finer materials are used for the 
inner parts, and it is lastly lined with grasses, stringy-bark, and 
tufts of hair from various dead animals. The eggs are four or 
live in number for a sitting, of a bright green, strongly blotched 
with deep black and brown, with a tinge of yellowish wood-brown 
in some places ; they are from 191 to 21 lines in length by 14 oi 
15 lines in breadth. They usually have two broods a year, 
beginning to breed in August, and continuing until November, or 
even later in some instances, according to the locality. 
It was in a paper to the Ibis from which the above is extracted, 
that Dr. Ramsay first drew attention to there being two distinct 
birds described under the name of C. coronoides, a fact since 
recognized by Mr. Sharpe, who has separated them under the names 
of Corone australis, and Corvus coronoides. 
C. coronoides can easily be distinguished from Corone australis 
by being the smaller bird of the two, and having the bases of the 
