band of black, which is ag-ain preceded on the inner web by a more 

 or less distinct bar of wliite ; head, sides of face, and entire throat 

 black, all the feathers of the fore part of the crown tipped with 

 lavender-grey, the hinder part of the crown, occiput, and nape being 

 entirely of the latter colour ; rest of under siu'face light greyish, 

 with somewhat of a bluish lustre, the flanks more decidedly grey, 

 the under wing- and tail-covcrts white, the former slightly shaded 

 with grey : bill and feet coral-red ; iris deep burnt sienna, tinged 

 with crimson. Total length 21 inches, culmen 1-5, wing 7-4, tail 

 IB, tarsus 1-8. 



XestUng. Showing much of the colours of the adult bird, but 

 browner, and having not only the whole of the crown, with the ex- 

 ception of the frontal ])lumes, white, but also the throat. 



Obs. Mr. Swinhoe described, in 1873, a new species of Urocissa, 

 from the " western hills of Pekin ;" but on examining the type of 

 his U. brevivexilln I find that there is a perfect gradation between 

 the Amoy and Pekin birds : those from Amoy are darker on the 

 breast, aiid the Pekin ones are very pale ; but the Ningpo examples 

 are exactly intermediate. 



Hah. China. 



a. Ad. sk. China. J. Gould, Esq. 



6. Ad. sk. China. Capt. Blakiston [C.]. 



f. ^ad. sk. Ningpo, China. J. Px. Reeves. Esq. [P.]. 



cl M. sk. Ningpo, China. J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.J. 



e. Ad. sk. North China. Mr. Fortune [C.]. 



/. Pull. sk. Amoy. Purchased. 



4. Urocissa flavirostris. 



Psilorhinus flavirostris, ^/yfA, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 28; id. Cat. B. 



Mm. A. S. B. p. 93. 

 Urocissa flavirostris. Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 87 ; Hursf. cV 3Ionre, 



Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 678; Gould, B. Asia, part xiii. ; Jerd. 



B. Ltd. ii. p. 310 ; Cock Sf Marsh. St.r. F. 1873, p. 357 ; Henders. 



eS- Hume, Lahore to Yark. p. 242 ; Hmne, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. 



p. 419. 

 Calocitta flavirostris, Bp. Consp. i. p. 381 . 

 Urocissa cucullata, Gould, B. Asia, part xiii. 

 Cissa flavirostris, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 70 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



ii. p. 7. 



Aclidt. Upper surface lavender-coloured, with a slight tinge of 

 azure-blue, the wings resembling the back for the most part, the 

 primaries externally greyish white for their apical two thirds, the 

 secondaries tipped with white, less distinctly so the primaries, where 

 it is confined to the outer web ; upper tail-coverts azure- blue tipped 

 with black, before which is a faint subterminal bar of bluish white, 

 very narrow ; tail azure-blue, broadly tipped with white, all but the 

 two centre feathers subterminally barred with black, before which 

 a faint appearance of a white bar is seen on the inner web ; head 

 and neck all round, including the mantle above and the fore neck 

 below, jet-black, with a large nuchal patch of white slightly glossed 



