Corvus levaillantii Lesson, 1831 sec. Corvids of the World

Distribution
Asia-Tropical Indian Subcontinent (Bangladesh (Bangladesh nativeB), India (Bihar nativeB, Jharkhand nativeB, West Bengal nativeB), Nepal (Nepal nativeB,1)); Indo-China (Andaman Is. (Andaman Is. nativeB), Cambodia (Cambodia nativeB), Laos (Laos nativeB,2), Myanmar (Myanmar nativeB), Thailand (Thailand nativeB), Vietnam (Vietnam nativeB,3)); Malesia (Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia nativeB,4))
Description
Adult: Irides brown; bill, feet, tows and claws black. Plumage wholly black, the underparts glossed with steel blue, the upperparts with steel violet. Northern birds (Thailand) belong to the form, intermediate between levaillantii and macrorhynchos, which Mayr designates "Subsp. 2" (Ibis, 1940, p. 695)
Habitat
Appears in Thailand werever man has gone before to clear the forest and cultivate the land. It is, accordingly, most numerous in towns and villages, but ventures also into clearings in the evergreen and ascends the mountains to as high an elevation as there are inhabited hai, on Doi Suthep reaching 3300 feet, on Doi Ang Ka, 4400 feet.A
Foraging
Fruits (figs), carrionA
Behaviour
Builds groups and sleeps in roosts during cold season (Thailand)A