1. Cyanopolius cyanus. 



Corvus cyanus, Pall. lieis. liuss. lieiclis. iii. App. p. 694 ; id. Zuogr. 



Rosso-Asiat. p. 391, pi. xvi.; Tvmm. i^- ^chl. Faun. Jap. Aves, pi. 



xlii. 

 Blue Cvovf, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. part 1, p. 394. 

 ]ja Pie bleue a tete noire, Lev.aUl. Ois. iVAfr. ii. pi. 58. 

 I'ica melanocephalos, Waijler, Si/st. Au. Pica, sp. 7 ; Grai/, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 10. 

 Pica cyana, Graxj, Gen. B. ii. p. 314 ; Schl. Faun. Japan, p. 81 ; 



Schrench, Reis. Amarl.^. 318; Radde, Sihir. Reis. p. 20.5 ; Schl. 



Mtis. P.-B. Coraces, p. 41 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 10 ; David, N. 



Arch. Mas. vii. Bull. p. 9. 

 Oyanopica vaillauti, Bp. P. Z. S. 18-50, p. 85. 

 Cyanopica pallasii, Bp.t. c. p. 85. 

 Cyauopica cyaueus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 382. 

 Cyanopica melanocephalus, Bp. t. c. p. 382. 

 Dolometis cyana. Cab. 3Ius. Hein. Th. i. p. 222. 

 Dolometis melanocephala, Cab. Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 222. 

 Cyanopica cyaua, Swinh. P. Z. S. I8i'>l, p. 336. 

 Cyauopolius cyanus, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 352. 



Adult male. General colour above clear ashy, vnth. a greyish lustre 

 especially on the upper tail-coverts ; head and nape, as well as the 

 sides of the face and ear-coverts, glossy blue-bhick ; cheeks and 

 throat white ; the rest of the under surface delicate ash-colour, in- 

 clining to white on the centre of the body ; wings pale cobalt, the 

 least coverts ashy, like the back ; primaries black, edged with blue 

 near the base and with white towards the tip ; the lower surface of 

 the wing pale greyish brown, white at the base of the inner web ; 

 tail pale cobalt-blue, with a broad white terminal band to the two 

 centre feathers, the others imperceptibly tipped with white ; bill and 

 feet black: " iris red " (Reeves). Total length 15 inches, culmen 1, 

 wing 5, tail 9, tarsus 1-35. 



Young. General colour above dusky drab-brown, with pale sandy 

 buff margins to the feathers, broader on the scapulars ; head and 

 sides of face black, obscured by sandy buff margins to the feathers ; 

 round the hind neck the feathers are sandy buff, forming a partial 

 coUar ; wing-coverts di'ab-brown, with the same sandy margins as 

 on the back, the outer ones slightly washed with dull azure-blue ; 

 the primary-coverts dull azure, with narrow white tips : quills black; 

 secondaries externally azure-blue, the primaries more or less broadly 

 margined with white towards the tip ; tail duU azure-blue, tipped 

 with white ; cheeks and throat sandy white ; breast and sides of 

 body greyish drab-brown, mottled with duU white margins to the 

 feathers, the abdomen and under tail-coverts duU white ; biU and 

 legs duU horn-brown. 



Ohs. The tint of colour on the back and breast of C. cyanus is 

 much greyer and less ruddy than in C. cooH ; but the species are 

 extremely close. The white tips to the tail-feathers are, as a rule, 

 a clearly distinguishing character ; but I have seen some Chinese 

 specimens which wanted them, while Mr. Howard Saunders pos- 

 sesses a Spanish bird with the centre tail-feathers tipped with 



