Head, neck, back, and under surface grey, each feather tipped with lighter grey; wings brown; tail black, the middle feathers glossed with deep rich metallic green; irides pearly white; bill and legs black. The figures are of the natural size. [Illustration: CORVUS CORONOÏDES: _Vig. & Horsf._ _J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _Hullmandel & Walton Imp._ ] CORVUS CORONOÏDES, _Vig. & Horsf._ White-eyed Crow. _Corvus Australis_, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 151.?—Gmel. Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 365.?—Daud. Orn., tom. ii. p. 226.? _South Sea Raven_, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. i. p. 363.?—Cook’s Last Voy., vol. i. p. 109.?—Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iii. p. 7.? _Corvus Coronoïdes_, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 261. _W̏ur-dang_, Aborigines of Western Australia. _Ȍm-bo-lak_, Aborigines of Port Essington. _Crow_ of the Colonists. This species is so intermediate in size, in the development of the feathers of the throat, in its voice, and in many parts of its economy, between the Carrion Crow and Raven of our own island, that it is difficult to say to which of those species it is most nearly allied; I prefer however placing it among the true Crows to assigning it to a companionship with the larger members of the family. Every part of Australia yet explored has been found to be inhabited by it; some slight difference however is observable between individuals from Port Essington, Swan River, Van Diemen’s Land, and New South Wales, but these differences appear to me to be too trivial to be regarded as specific; specimens from Western Australia are somewhat less in size than those procured in the other localities mentioned. When the birds are fully adult, the colour of the eye is white and is the same in the whole of them,—a circumstance which tends to strengthen the opinion I entertain of their being one and the same species. In Western Australia for the greater part of the year this bird is met with in pairs or singly; but in May and June it congregates in families of from twenty to fifty, and is then very destructive to the farmer’s seed crops, which appears to be its only inducement for assembling together, as it is not known to congregate at any other period. In New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land it is also usually seen in pairs, but occasionally congregated in small flocks. At Port Essington, where it is mostly seen in pairs, in quiet secluded places, it is not so abundant as in other parts of Australia. The stomach is tolerably muscular, and the food consists of insects, carrion of all kinds, berries, seeds, grain, and other vegetable substances. Its croak very much resembles that of the Carrion Crow, but differs in the last note being lengthened to a great extent.