COETIPJE.

3. Corvus corone, Linn. The Gamon-Groiv.

Oorvus corone, Linn., Jerd. B. Ind. ii, p. 295 j Hume, Rough Draft
N. $ E. no. 659*.

The only Indian eggs of the Carrion-Crow which I have seen, and
one of which, with the parent bird, I owe to Mr. Brooks, were taken
by the latter gentleman on the 30th May at Sonamerg, Cashmere.

The eggs were broad ovals, somewhat compressed towards one
end, and'of the regular Corvine type—a pretty pale green ground,
blotched, smeared, streaked, spotted, and clouded, nowhere very
profusely but most densely about the large end, with a greenish or
olive-brown and pale sepia. The brown is a brighter and greener,
or duller and more olive, lighter or darker, in different eggs, and
even in different parts of the same egg. The shell is fine and
close, but has only a faint gloss.

The eggs only varied from 1-67 to 1-68 in length, and from T14
to 1-18 in breadth.

Whether this bird breeds regularly or only as a straggler in
Cashmere we do not know ; it is always overlooked and passed by
as a " Common Crow." Future visitors to Cashmere should try
and clear up both the identity of the bird and all particulars about
its nidification.

4. Corvus inacrorhynclrtts, Wagler. Tlie Jungle-Crow.

Corvus culminatus, Sykes, Jerd. B, Ind. ii, p. 295,

Corvus levaillantii, Less., Hume, Rough Draft N. fy E. no. 660.

The Jungle-Crow (under which head I include t G. culminatus,
Sykes, C. intermedius, Adams, G. andamanensis, Tytler, and each
and all of the races that occur within our limits) breeds almost
everywhere in India, alike in the low country and in the hills both
of Southern and Northern India, to an elevation of fully 8000
feet.

March to May is, I consider, the normal breeding-season; in
the plains the majority lay in April, rarely later, and in the hills
in May ; but in the plains a few birds lay also in February.

The nest is placed as a rule on good-sized trees and pretty near,
their summits. In the plains mangos and tamarinds seem to be
preferred, but I have found the nests on many different kinds of
trees. The nest is large, circular, and composed of moderate-sized
twigs; sometimes it is thick, massive, and compact; sometimes
loose and straggling; always with a considerable depression in the
centre, which is smoothly lined with large quantities of horsehair,

* Mr. Hume, at one time separated the Indian Carrion-Crow from Corvus
corone under the name C. pseudo-corone. In hisŁ Catalogue' he re-unites them.
I quite agree with him that the two birds are inseparable.—ED.

t See ' Stray Feathers,' vol. ii. 1874, p. 243, and ' Lahore to Yarkand,'
p. 85.