9. Corvus monedula, Linn. _The Jackdaw_.

Colaeus monedula (_Linn._), _Jerd. B. Ind._ ii, p. 302.

Corvus monedula, _Linn., Hume, Rough Draft N. & E._ no. 665.

I only know positively of Jackdaws breeding in one district within our

limits, viz. Cashmere; but I have seen it in the hills in summer, as

far east as the Valley of the Beas, and it must breed everywhere in

suitable localities between the two.

In the cold season of course the Jackdaw descends into the plains of

the North-west Punjaub, is very numerous near the foot of the hills,

and has been found in cis-Indus as far east as Umballa, and south at

Ferozpoor, Jhelum, and Kalabagh. In Trans-Indus it extends unto the

Dehra Ghazi Khan district.

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