21. cissA. 87 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 11-5 inches, 

 culmen 1-5, wing 5-4, tail 4-7, tarsus 1-75. 

 Bah. Java. 



a. Ad. St. Java. 



h. (S ad. sk. W. Java. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [CI. 



c. $ ad. sk. W. Java. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



3. Cissa ornata. 



Pica ornata, IFaffl. Isis, 1829, p. 749. 



Cissa puella, £l!/ih, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 9.3 {ex Layard, MS.) ; 



Layard, Aim. '^- Mag. N. 11. (2) xiii. p. 213. 

 Cissa pjTrhocyanea, Gould, B. Asia, part 1 (ex Licht. MS.). 

 Kitta ornata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 166. 

 Kitta speciosa, Bp. t. c. p. 370 {lapsu). 

 Citta ornata, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 9. 

 Cissa ornata, Blyth, Ibis, 1807, p. 299 ; Schl. Coraces, p. 69 ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 7; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 461. 



Adult. General colour deep blue, shading off into bright cobalt 

 on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; head and neck all round, as 

 well as the chest, chestnut, the rest of the under surface deep blue, 

 shading off into brilliant cobalt on the abdomen and flanks ; thighs 

 ultramarine ; wiiig-coverts rich ultramarine, the rest of the wing 

 chestnut on the outer web, blackish on the inner one, the innermost 

 secondaries shaded with blue on the inner web, the first primary 

 black, washed with blue externally ; tail deep blue, more or less 

 shaded with cobalt, broadly tipped with white, before which is a 

 tolerably broad bar of black ; under wing-coverts blue, shading off 

 into grey on the innermost, the inner lining of the quills blackish, 

 externally edged with chestnut, and inclining to rufous near the 

 base of the inner web ; bill red ; bare skin round the eye crimson ; 

 feet coral-red; iris light brown. Total length 17 inches, culmen 1-6, 

 wing 6-5, tail 10"5, tarsus 1-8. 



Young. All the colours duller than in the adult ; the wing-coverts 

 greyish black, with a slight wash of blue ; lower back, rump, and 

 under surface of body grey, with only a slight tinge of blue ; bill 

 blackish. 



Hah. Ceylon. 



E. L. Layard, Esq. [C.]. 

 Hugh Cuming, Esq. 

 Hugh Cuming, Esq. 



