628 Col. R. Meinertzhagen on Birds from [Ibis, 
It is curious that Stresemann (Avif. Macedon.) should 
have recognized the small southern race o£ the Hooded Crow 
as coming from the Balkans to Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, 
but should have united them with the Cyprus bird under the 
name Corvus corone pallescens (Mad.). In fresh autumn 
plumage the Cyprus bird is much paler than birds from the 
Balkans, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt (and Sardinia), and 
must be recognized as a geographical race under the name 
Corvus cornix pallescens (Mad.). 
Cretan birds appear similar to those from Cyprus in 
colour but are much larger, resembling more Corvus cornix 
cornix in size : 
4 S • Wing 316-327 ; culmen, length 55-61, height 20-22 ; 
1 $ . Wing 313 ; culmen, length 56, height 20 ; 
and I have already described this bird as 
Corvus cornix minos Meinertz. Bull. B. 0. C. xli. 1920, p. 19. 
In conclusion I recognize the following races of Hooded 
Crow :— 
Corvus cornix cornix L.—Large and dark. Northern, 
western, and central Europe. 
Corvus cornix sardonius Kleinschm.—Small and dark. 
Sardinia, Corsica, probably Sicily, Balkans, 
probably Asia Minor, Syria *, Palestine, and Egyptf. 
* In Syria the Hooded Crow is a common resident at Aleppo, 
Damascus, and Baalbek, but not in the Lebanon or Syrian Desert. On 
the coast they do not seem to occur north of Sidon or south and west of 
Khan Yunus (near Gaza). They are absent from Galilee, the Yarmuk 
Valley, and the northern Jordan Valley. Not seen south of Hebron. 
Common in coastal Palestine, the Judaean highlands north to Nablus, 
and in the Lower Jordan Valley near Jericho. Apparently common in 
Transjordaniaand on the Moab Plateau. (Tristram, Survey of Palestine.) 
f In Egypt the Hooded Crow is confined to the Delta, and not to all of 
that. Absent from the Suez Canal throughout its length, and does not 
seem to occur much east of Tel-el-Kebir. In the western Delta they 
are gradually extending- their range towards Alexandria, but so far have 
not reached that place by a few miles. The southern limit up the Nile is 
not yet known for certain, but they certainly occur as far south as 
Assouan. 
