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ground is a very pale pure bluish green,- in others it is dingier and-
greener. All are blotched, speckled, and streaked more or less
with somewhat pale sepia markings ; but in some the spots and
specks are a darker brown and, as a rule, well defined, and there
is very little streaking, while in others the brown is pale and
muddy, the markings ill-defined, and nearly the whole surface of
the egg is freckled over with smudgy streaks. Sometimes the
markings are most numerous at the Targe end, sometimes at the
small ; no two eggs are exactly alike, and yet they have so strong
a family resemblance that there is no possibility of mistaking them.
Generally the markings as a whole are less bold, and the general
colour of a large body of them laid together is bluer and brighter
than that of a similar drawer-full of Ravens' eggs. As a whole,
too, they are more glossy. I have one egg before me bright blue
and almost as glossy as a Mynah's, thickly blotched and speckled
at the broad end, and thinly spotted elsewhere with olive-green,
blackish-brown, and pale purple. Another egg, a pale pure blue,
is spotless, except at the large end, where there is a conspicuous
cap of olive-brown and olive-green spots and speckles, and there
are numerous other abnormal varieties which I have not observed
amongst the Ravens.

On the whole the eggs do not vary much in size ; out of one
hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and ninety-five varied
between 1-28 and 1'65 in length, and 0-98 and 1*15 in breadth.
One egg measures only 1/2 in length, and one is only 0*9 6 in
breadth; but the average .of the whole is 1-44 by 1*06.

8. Corvus insolens, Hume. The Burmese Howe- Crow.
COITUS insolens; Hume j Ehvme, Cat. no. 663 "bis.

The Burmese House-Crow breeds pretty well over the whole of
Burma.

Mr. Oates, writing from Pegu, says : — " Nesting operations are
commenced about the 20th March. The nest and eggs require no
separate description, for both appear to be similar to those of
C. splendens"

When large series of the eggs of both these species are com-
pared, those of the Burmese Crow strike one as averaging some-
what brighter coloured, otherwise they are precisely alike and need
no separate description.

9. Corvus monedula, Linn. The Jackdaw.

Colaeus nionedula (Linn?), Jerd. H. 2nd. ii; p. 302.

Corvus monedula, Linn., ^ime, Hough Draft N. §• E. no. 665.

I only know positively of Jackdaws breeding in one district
within our limits, viz. Cashmere ; but I have seen it in the hills in
summer, as far east as the Valley of the Beas, and it must breed
everywhere in suitable localities between the two.