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Vernacular names. The European Raven; Domkak, Doda (Hind. in the N.W.); Kargh (Candahar).

Description. Entirely black, glossed with steel-blue, purple and lilac; the throat-hackles short and not very conspicuous.

Colours of soft parts. Iris brown; bill and legs shining black.

Measurements. Length from about 600 to 620 mm.; wing from 400 to 440 mm.; tail about 240 mm.; tarsus about 60 mm.; culmen about 64 mm. to 75 mm.

Distribution. Punjab, Bombay, United Provinces and N.W. Provinces, and a rare straggler into Kashmir and Central India. It occurs also in Sind, but in the N.E. of that province the Brown-necked Raven takes its place.

Outside of India the Punjab Raven is found through Baluchistan, S. Persia, Mesopotamia, Southern Asia Minor and Northern