. Birds .. . hyer, wilder bird, tliough it is said to haunt the vicinity ofvillages in Tibet. It was also reported as common all along theroute taken by the Military Expedition to Lhassa, frequentingthe camps, feeding on the animals that died on the march andacting as regular scavengers. (3) Corvns corax mficollis. The Bbows^-xecked Eaven. Corvus nificolUg Lesson, Traits dOm., p. 329 (1831) (Africa).Corvus umbrintts. Blanf. & Dates, i, p. 15. Vemacnlar names. I^one recorded. Description. Differs from other Indian forms of Baven in 24 cobtidjE. being a much browner bird in general coloration, m
. Birds .. . hyer, wilder bird, tliough it is said to haunt the vicinity ofvillages in Tibet. It was also reported as common all along theroute taken by the Military Expedition to Lhassa, frequentingthe camps, feeding on the animals that died on the march andacting as regular scavengers. (3) Corvns corax mficollis. The Bbows^-xecked Eaven. Corvus nificolUg Lesson, Traits dOm., p. 329 (1831) (Africa).Corvus umbrintts. Blanf. & Dates, i, p. 15. Vemacnlar names. I^one recorded. Description. Differs from other Indian forms of Baven in 24 cobtidjE. being a much browner bird in general coloration, more eapeciallyso on the neck and shoulders. The neck-hackles are even shorterthan in laureneei and it is rather smaller also than either of theprevious forms. lUCeasareineiits. Wing about 400 mm. and ranging between380 and 420 mm. The bill in the Indian form is also moreslender than it is in either the Tibet or Punjab Raven. Distribution. Sind, Baluchistan, 8. Persia, Palestine andN. Africa to Fig. 3.—A throat-hackle of C. c. ruficoUia. Nidificatiou. The Brown-necked Eaven builds in cliffs or riverbanks throughout its whole area. In Baluchistan it apparentlyoccasionally breeds in the rocky sides of the steeper and morebroken gorges and cliffs. In South Palestine it breeds in greatnumbers in the river banks or in the many precipitous ravinesin that country and the little that is on record concerning itsbreeding elsewhere agrees with this. It usually layii four eggs,often three only and sometimes five. Col. E. Meinertzhagentook a fine series of the eggs near Jerusalem. They are verysmall and can hardly be distinguished from those of a Carrion-Crow but they are rather poorly marked on the whole, less brownthan those of the Tibet Eaven but much less richly coloured thanthose of the Punjab Eaven. They measure about 450 x 31-5 breeding season in Palestine seems to commence in earlyMarch,- but in Baluchistan they lay in December and January. Habits. This is essen
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