1 i . UR0CIS9A. 7J 



.. cJ ad sk. NW. Himalaya. ('apt. Stafkhouse Pinwill fRl. 



k, I, m. $ ad. sk. ?v .W . Himalaya. ('apt. Stackhouse Pinwill [P.]. 



2. Urocissa magnirostris. 



Psilorhimis maguirostris, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 27 : id. Cat B 

 Mm. A. S. B. p. 93. r , ^ 



Urocissa magnirostris, Cah. Mas. Bein. Th. i. p. 87, note; Gould, B 

 Ami part xui. ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 311 ; Godicin-Aust. J. A. S. B 

 Tr-"I',P- I'O; ^^'""^, Str. F. 1874, p. 480, 1875, p. 145: Blyth &■ 

 II aldcn, B. Bunnah, p. 88. r i ^ ^ 



Calocitta niagnirostris, Bp. Cunsp. i. p. 381. 



Cissa magnirostris, Grarj, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 7. 



■f-'Mt. Very similar to U. oecijoitalis, but with a very much stouter 

 bill and tarsus. The colour is much darker, the wings less blue and 

 the white spots at the tips of the primaries are either nearly obso- 

 lete or absent altogether. Total length about 20 inches, culmen 

 I'b, wing r-i, tarsus 1-95. 



Hab. Burmah and Siam. 

 a Ad sk. Siam (Schomhurgh). J. Gould, Esq. 



^- Skeleton. 2ool. Society 



3. Urocissa erythrorhyncha*. 



Le Geai de la Chine a bec rouge, Month. H. N. Ois iii p 115 • id PI 

 Enl. 622. ^ ' • ■ 



Red-billed .Jay, Lntli. ; Gen. Si/n. i. p. 390. 



Black-headed Koller, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. p 86 



Corv-us erythrorhynchiis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 372 (ex Lath.); Baud. 

 Trade, p. 240, pi. xv. 



Coracias melanocephalus, Lath. Lnd. Orn. i. p. 170 



La Pie bleue, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. ii. pi. ,57. 



Psilorhinus sinensis, Gray, Gen. B. ii p. 308. 



Calocitta sinensis, Bp. Con^p. i. p. .381. 



Urocissa sinensis, Cah. Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 87 ; Gould, B. A.na, 

 part xin.; 6««H/i. P. Z. .S. 1871, p. .382. 



Calocitta erythroihyncha, Pelz. Iteise Novara, Voq. p. 86 



Cissa erythrorhyncha, Schl. Mm. P.-B. Coraces, p. 70. 



Cissa sinensis. Gray, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 7. 



Urocissa brevivexil'la, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 688. 



Adult male. Above lavender-brown, slightly shaded with bluish 

 purple ; wings dull azure, brigliter on the quiUs, M'hich are dark 

 brown internally, and all of the primaries tipped with white on the 

 outer web, the secondaries having a terminal bar of the same • upper 

 tail-coverts lavender-brown, shading off into pale grev before the tip 

 which has a broad black band : tail azure-blue, broadly tipped with 

 white, all but the two centre feathers having a wide subterminal 



This IS the bird generally called Urocissa .nne,7sis by authors; but I think 

 thi8 name ought to be rejected. The Cr-cdus sinensis of Linnaeus was founded 

 on Bnssons - Coucou hicu de la Chine" (Orn. iv. p. 137, pi. xiv. A. fig. 2) 

 Thi.s bn;d was described and figured from a native Chinese drawing, and is a 

 fancy picture of the Blue Pie of China, and should be discarded on account of 

 its thorough inaccuracy. 



