17. VROtlSSA. 69 



white. This, liowcvcr, is the only one he has ever seen out of hun- 

 dreds of speciujens examined by him. 



Hah. Eastern Siberia, Japan, Xorth China. 



a. (S ad. .sk. River Onon, Feb. 18, 1872. Dr. Dybowski [C.]. 



h. Ad. sk. Yokohama, Japan. II. Pryer, Esq. [C.]. 



c, d. Ad. St. North China. Mr. Fortune [C.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Shanghai. Shanghai Museum fP.l. 

 /. Skeleton. ^ "" 



2. Cyanopolius cooki. 



Pica cyanea, TJ'ar/Ier, Si/st. Ar. Pica, sp. G (ncc Pall. ) ; CuoJ;, P. 

 Z. S. 1831, p. 96; Kei/s. 8: Blasius. IFirb. Eur. p. xlv: Gould, 

 B. Eur. iii. pi. 217 ; Bree, B. Eur. i. p. 140, cum tab. 



Corvus cyanus, Schl. u. Susein. Vof/. Eur. ii. Taf. 5. 



Cyanopolius cooki, Bp. Report Brit. Assoc. 1849, p. 75. 



Cyanopica cooki, Bp. P. Z. 8. 18-50, p. 86 ; id. Consp. i. 352 ; Fritsch, 

 Vof/. Eur. tab. xxvii. fig. 9 ; Dresser, B. Eur. part xxvii. ; Lhy, 

 B. Gihr. p. 129 ; Bree, B. Eur. 2nd ed. ii. p. 4, cum tab. 



Dolometis cooki, Cab. Mus. Ileiii. Th. i. p. 222. 



Pica cooki, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 10. 



Adult male. Similar to C. cyanea, but decidedly browner and not 

 so grey, particularly on the under surface : head more purplish 

 brown ; white tips to secondaries and centre tail-feathers almost 

 imperceptible or entirely absent ; bill and legs black. Total length 

 13-5 inches, eulmen 1, wing o-2o, tail 8, tarsus 1-35. 



Hab. Southern Spain. 



a. Ad. sk. South Spain. Capt. Cook, Pt.X. [P.]. 



( Type of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Spain. Purchased. 



c. S ad. sk. Madrid, June 1863 (H. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



Saunders) . 



17. UROCISSA. 



Type. 

 Lrocissa, Cab. Mus. Hem. Th. i. p. 87 (1850). ... U. erj-throrhyucha. 

 Calocitta, Bp. Consp. i. 381 (1850, nec Gray) .... U. erj'throrhyncha. 



Range. Himalaya Mountains, Burmese and Indo-Chinese coun- 

 tries to China and Formosa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Underparts white or yellowish white, some- 

 times greyish. 

 a'. With coral-red bill. 



a". Back purplish, with a strong shade of azure- 

 blue. 

 «'". Bill small ; subterminal bar on upper 

 tail-coverts very nan-ow, not equal to 

 half the width of the subterminal band ; 

 primaries tipped white on the outer 



web occipitalis, p. 70. 



t'". Bill larger ; subterminal bar on tail- 



