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Col. R. Meinertzhagen on the 
[Ibis, 
Corvus cornix minos Meinertz. 
Corvus c. minos Meinertzhagen, Ball. B. 0. C. xli. 1920, 
p. 19 : Candia. 
This new race is pale and very similar to C. c. pallescens 
from Cyprus, but has a longer wing and a deeper and longer 
culmen. 
It is a common bird, ascending to the Nidlm Plain at 
5000 feet. It breeds in olive.and oak trees, the young 
being well on the wing by the end of June. 
G-arrulus glandarius cretorum Meinertz. 
Garrulus g. cretorum Meinertzhagen, Bull. B. O. C. 
xli. 1920, p. 19 : Mount Ida. 
Very near G:g.ichnusce from Sardinia, but with a slightly 
redder neck and greyer back. Similar in size. 
Not seen below 4000 feet, and apparently confined to the 
Ilex forest. Both full-grown and half-grown young seen in 
the middle of June. 
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (L.). 
The Chough was abundant on Mount Ida between 5000 
and 7000 feet. About 100 pair were nesting in the Kamares. 
Cave in June, the young being well on the wing and a few 
still in the nest in mid-June. 
The young have a peculiar call, not unlike that of 71 /crops 
a piaster. Several smaller colonies were found in other 
smaller caves. 
Doubtless the “ Yellow-billed Choughs ” reported by 
Miss Bate (Trevor-Battye : ‘Camping in Crete 5 ) were the 
young of this species. 
Chloris chloris subsp. ? 
A single adult male obtained in worn plumage. In size 
it is nearest to C. c. clilorotica , but in general coloration, is 
nearest C. c. maderaszi from Cyprus. It is certainly not 
C. c. muhlei , which is a darker and larger bird than my 
Cretan specimen. 
Common from sea-level to 4500 feet, both in cultivation 
and in the Ilex forest. Full-grown young seen on 7 June, 
