136 On the Corvus neglectus of Schlegel. 
4th. Altogether C. neglectus is a darker bird than 
C. monedula. 
5tli. The dimensions are not smaller, as generally stated: 
one bird in the Museum of Turin has the wing 240 mm. 
long, while in C. monedula the wing is about 230 mm. 
Hab. Japan and Eastern Asia from Siberia to N. China. 
In the recent work of Dr. Hartert ( f Die Vogel der pala- 
arktischen Fauna ’) Colceus neglectus is treated as u hochst- 
wahrscheinlich keine Art.” I was rather surprised at this 
statement, especially as the Museum of Turin possesses two 
fine specimens obtained on board the ship ‘ Magenta ’ while 
staying in the Gulf of Petchili (Giglioli, ‘ Viaggio della 
Magenta/ p. 601). Therefore I was induced to investigate 
the status of the bird, and I soon perceived that ornitho¬ 
logists were at variance on the subject. 
It appears that Pallas was the first to mention the bird, 
thinking that it was a variety of C. dauricus. 
Temminck and Sclilegel in the f Fauna Japonica* described 
specimens from Japan as the young of the same bird; they 
also gave a good figure of it. 
Later on Schlegel (Bijdr. etc.) recognised that the bird 
figured as the young of C. dauricus in the 6 - Fauna Japonica 5 
was really an adult, and described it under the name of 
C. neglectus . He pointed out that the two typical specimens 
had the remiges and rectrices worn, so that they could not 
be young, and besides he rightly noticed that in the Crows 
the young birds do not differ much in colouring from the 
adults. Notwithstanding all this, in the f Museum des 
Pays-Bas/ Coraces, p. 35, Schlegel went back to the earlier 
mistake and declared that the two types of C. neglectus were 
nothing but young birds of C, dauricus ! Swinhoe (P. Z. S. 
1871, p. 383) protested against such statement, saying: 
“ I cannot understand Prof. Schlegel considering the follow¬ 
ing species (C. neglectus) the young of this bird ( C . dauricus ). 
I have taken this bird from the nest and found the young 
beginning life with all the characters of the adult.” 
When we consider that Swinhoe, David, Styan, and others 
have noticed that between the two extreme forms, the pied 
