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Title: Birds
Identifier: birds___01bake (find matches)
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Baker, E. C. Stuart (Edward Charles Stuart), 1864-1944; Oates, Eugene William, 1845-1911; Blanford, William Thomas, 1832-1905
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London : Taylor & Francis
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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9-> corvid.t;. Palestine. It is not easy to separate the breeding ranges of ruficoUis and Icmrencei, but the former appears to be essentially a bird of deserts and bare hills whilst the Punjab Eaven is more a bird of wooded country, though both are great wanderers and overlap one another constantly in their non-breeding hanuts. Nidification. This Raven makes a large nest of sticks, sometimes lined with a little wool, leaves or smaller, softer twigs and places it near tlie top of a tree either in the open or in thin forest. The eggs number from four to six, generally four or five and are a pale blue-green marked with deep brown and with underlying marks of pale grey and neuti'al tint. The markings are usually thickly distributed over the whole surface but are sometimes bolder and blacker and more sparse, making the eggs very liand- some in appearance. They are typically rather long ovals. They average about 50-7 x 33*6 mm. The breeding season is from the end of December to earlv )\Jaroh.
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