IT). PICA. 63 



Pica megaloptera, BIyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 193. 



Pica media, Bh/th, J. A. S. B. xiii. p. ;39.ji ; id. Cat. B. Mtis. A. S. B. 



p. 91, App. p. 19 ; Ilorsf. c)- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. 



p. 554 ; frray, Hund-l. B. ii. p. 10 ; David, X. Arch. Mus. vii. Bull. 



p. 9; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 382. 

 Pica varia, Schl. Rev. Crit. p. 54; id. Dier. Nederl. pi. xiii. figs. 7, 7a; 



id. Mus. P.-B. Coiaces, p. 39; Kjcerb. Orn. Dan. pi. xii. tig. 2. 

 Pica sericea, Guidd, P. Z. *'. 1845, p. 2 ; Gi-ai/, Gen. B. ii. p. 314 ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 383. 

 Cleptes hudsonicus, Gamhel, Journ. Acad. N. Sci. Philad. 1847, p. 47. 

 Pica tibetana, Ilodijs. Ann. N. H. (2) iii. p. 203. 

 Pica varia japonica, Schl. Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 81. 

 Pica japonica, Bp. Consp. i. p. 383 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 10. 

 Pica butaneDsis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 383. 

 Pica bactriaiia, Bp. Consp. i. p. 383 ; Ilorsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. Mus. 



E.I. Co. ii. p. 550 ; Gould, B. Asia, pt. xt. ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 10 ; Henders. Sf Hume, Lahore to Yark. p. 240 ; Hume, Nest* 



andEygs Lid. B. p. 416 ; Scully, Str. F. 1870, p. 158. 

 Pica chinensis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 383. 

 Cleptes pica, Cab. 3Ius. Hein. Th. i. p. 229. 

 Pica yulgaris, Brehm, J. f. O. 1858, p. 173. 



Pica leueoptera, Gould, B. Asia, pt. xiv. ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 10. 

 Pica ru.^tica, Dresser, B. Eur. part xxii. ; Irhy, B. Gibr. p. 129; 



Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 238 ; Blanf. E. Persia, p. 264. 

 Pica melanoleuca, var. hudsonica, Cones, Key N. Amer. B. p. 164. 

 Pica caudata, var. bactriana, Sevcrtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 04. 

 Pica caudata, var. hudsonica, Baird, Breicer, ^- Ridgw. N.-Amer. B. 



p. 266. 



Adult male (Sweden). Above glossy black, with a distinct shade 

 of shining deep green on the crown and back, rather coppery on the 

 former ; across the lower back a slight indication of an ashy- white 

 bar, some of the feathers being mottled with that colour ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts purplish black ; shoulders white, some of the 

 lower feathers shaded with ashy brown ; wings blue, the outer edge 

 of the wing, the primary-coverts, and external web of primaries 

 green ; the secondary quills with an internal shade of bright green 

 along the outer web near the base, the inner secondaries bright blue, 

 shading into green on the inner web ; the inner webs of the pri- 

 maries white for the greater part of their extent, the tips only 

 blackish for about an inch, the white gradually decreasing in extent 

 on the secondaries, on which the dusky bases to the feathers en- 

 croach and confine the white, which on the last one marked with 

 white is reduced to an ovate patch ; tail dark green, tipped with 

 dusky black, before which the green colour of the tail shades into 

 coppery colour, and thence through purplish red to purplish blue, 

 causing a strong subterminal baud on all excepting the outermost 

 feather, which is dusky blackish, externally deep blue, inclining to 

 purple near the base ; head and neck all round and chest glossy 

 purplish black, the threat streaked with numerous stripes of grey ; 

 rest of under surface pure white, the lower abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts pui-plish black, the thighs and under wing-coverts black, 

 shaded with green ; bill and legs black ; iris brown. Total length 

 16 inches, culmen 1'5, wing 7'9, tail 98, tarsus 1-95. 



