19. DEXUROCITTA. 81 



0. Dendrocitta sinensis. 



La Pie de Macao, Sonn. Vo>j. Ind. ii. p. 187. 



Macao Crow, Lath. Gen. Si/n. Suppl. p. 84. 



Corvus sinensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 161 ; Daud. Traite, ii. p. 244 • 



Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. :369. ' 



Deudrocitta siueusis. Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 8 ; Sidnh. P Z S 1871 



p. 382. ' 



Adult. Back and scapulars brown, shading ofl' into greyish on the 

 lower back ; the rump whiter grey ; the upper tail- coverts also clear 

 grey ; crown of head and hind neck dull grey, shading off a little 

 deeper on the mantle ; a broad frontal band and feathers below the 

 eye and near the base of the bill black, all the rest of the sides of 

 the face and of the throat dull ashy brown, extending also onto the 

 chest, and shading off into grey on the lower breast and abdomen ; 

 thighs blackish brown, shaded with grey ; under tail-coverts orange \ 

 under wing-coverts blackish : Avings above black, with a greenish 

 Bteel gloss, the least coverts slightly shaded with grey; on the wing 

 a very distinct speculum, caused by the white bases to the primaries 

 extending onto the outer as well as the inner web ; tail black 

 slightly glossed like the wings. Total length 13-5 inches, culmen 

 l-2o, wing 5-4, tail 7-4, tarsus 1-15. {AIus. Ji. Siuinhoe). 



Ohs. The true D. sinensis is a very much smaller bii-d than 

 D. lamnluyensis ■ and the following are the measurements of some 

 specimens collected by Mr. Swinhoe : — 



Total length. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 



in. in. in. in. 



a. Ad. Ningpo, Dec. 23, 1872 13-5 5-4 7-4 1-15 



h. $ ad. „ Sept. 30, 1872 12-5 5oo 7-4 1-2 



c. Ad. Hainan, Feb. 1868 106 49 67 10 



^- ^^- » :, „ 100 4-8 60 l-Oo 



^' ^^- n „ „ 11-0 5-15 70 105 



Hah. China. 



a Ad. sk. Hainan, February 1868. R. Swinhoe, Esq. \V.\ 



b. Ad. sk. China. j. Qould, Esq. 



7. Dendrocitta occipitalis. (Plate III.) 



Glaucopis occipitalis, Mid/. Tijdschr. 1835, p. 343, pi. ix. fig. 1 ; Schl. 



Mm. P.-B. Coraces, p. 75. 

 Dendrocitta rufigaster, Gonld, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 80: Blidh, Cat. B. 



Mas. A. S. B. p. 336 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 8. 

 Crypsirhina riifigastra, Bli/th, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 933. 

 Dendrocitta occipitalis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 369 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 8. 



Adult. Back and scapulars warm brown, inclining to grey on the 

 lower back ; the rump and upper tail-coverts whitish grey, clearer 

 on the former ; head all round smoky brown, blackish on the crown 

 and paler on the forehead, nasal bristles, and sides of face : occiput 

 and nape greyish white, shading off into clearer grcv on the mantle : 



