Bill large and compressed, longer than head; culmen strongly curved; gonys straight; nostrils completely hidden by stiff antrorse frontal feathers, the longest of which equal nearly one-half the length of bill from base; first primary much shorter than second, but more than one-half the length of wing; second primary much shorter than third, fourth longest, third and fifth nearly equal; rectrices broad; tail slightly or much rounded; feet and tarsi strong, the latter less than culmen from base. Plumage entirely black, glossed with purple and green; sexes alike.
Genera.
- a1. Tail much rounded; first primary about equal to the outer secondaries. Corone (p. [722])
- a2. Tail very slightly rounded, the rectrices subequal; first primary shorter than the outer secondaries. Corvus (p. [723])
Genus CORONE Kaup, 1829.
First primary about equal in length to the outer secondaries, the latter shorter than some of the more interior ones; tail much rounded and about as long as the longest secondaries.
737. CORONE PHILIPPINA (Bonaparte).
PHILIPPINE CROW.
- Corvus philippinus Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. (1853), 37, 830; Grant and Whitehead, Ibis (1898), 234 (eggs); Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 100 (habits).
- Corone philippina Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1877), 3, 42; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 110.
Wak, in general use.