86 corvTiD.T:. 



Hah. South-eastern Himalayas, ranging through the Burmeso 

 provinces to Tenasseriin. 



Subsp. a. Cissa minor. 



Cissa minor, Cab. Mus. Ilein. i. p. 86 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 7. 



Dr. Cabanis has separated the Sumatran Cissa as a distinct 

 species. The birds in the Museum measure as follows : — 



Both these Sumatran specimens are smaller than the ordinary 

 Himalayan skins ; but beyond that fact there is not much .ground for 

 specific separation, especially as the Sumatran examples differ so much 

 inter se. The character given by Dr. Cabanis, viz. that the white 

 on the inner secondaries extends up the outer web, as in the Javan 

 Cissa thalassina, does not hold good; for these quills are as distinctly 

 spotted as in C. chinensis. 



Hah. Sumatra. 

 a, h. Ad. sk. Sumatra. Leiden Museum [P.]. 



c. Ad. sk. [Sumatra.] Purchased. 



2. Cissa thalassina. 



Kitta thalassina, Temm. PI Col. 401 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 166. 

 Corapica thallasina. Less. Traite, p. 353. 

 Chlorisoma thalassina, Stoains. Classif. B. ii. p. 230. 

 Cissa thalassina, Graij, Gen. B. ii. p. 308 ; Cah. Mus. Hein. Th. i. 

 p. 86; Svhl. Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 67 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 7. 



Adult male. Beautiful light green above and below, more or less 

 inclining to verdigris-blue ; lores and feathers round the eye, ex- 

 tending in a band round the nape, black ; lea.st wing-coverts green 

 like the back, the rest of the wing reddish, shaded with green on 

 the greater coverts, the innermost secondaries bluish white, the 

 bases of the outer webs reddish brown, gradually extending towards 

 the tips of the feathers as they approach the secondaries proper ; 

 tail green or bluish green, the outermost feather slightly whitish at 

 tip; bill and feet red. Total length 12 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 

 5*5, tail 5, tarsus 1'75. * 



