on Dr. Jerdoii's ' Birds of India.' 37 



shorter than in other Magpies, and quite uniformly glossed, 

 without that steel-blue baud near the end seen in others of the 

 genus. Even another species is figured by Mr. Gould (B. As. 

 pt. xiv.) as P. leucoptera from Eastern Siberia, ^vhich is re- 

 markable for having the inner webs of the primaries white to 

 the end, or with merely an exceedingly slight terminal dark 

 border. 



The nomenclature of the Urocissa (vol. ii. pp. 309-311) is 

 rectified in the 'Appendix' (p. 873), and the species have been 

 figured by Mr. Gould (B. As. pt. xiii.) ; but the bills of the first 

 three should be represented as deep coral-red, not orange. 

 U. magnirustris of Burma and Siam has a dark, blackish iris, 

 while the specimen of U. sinensis in the Zoological Gardens 

 has a bright reddish hazel iris. (See, however, Swinhoe on this 

 subject, * Jbis,' 1865, p. 349.) A fifth beautiful race exists in 

 Mr. Swinhoe's U. ccerulea of Formosa. 



Mr. Gould remarks, of the genus Garndus, that " the fauna 

 of India claims the G. bispecularis, the G. lanceulatus, and the 

 G. lidthi" (B. G. B. pt. i.). The habitat of G. lidthi, Bonap. 

 (P. Z S. 1850, p. 80, Aves, pi. xvii.), is still unknown, I be- 

 lieve ; and so remarkable a bird could scarcely have escaped ob- 

 servation in the Himalaya. No doubt it ])robably inhabits 

 some part of Middle Asia ; but Middle Asia is not exactly 

 synonymous with " India." 



673. CissA SINENSIS, Bodd. ; Gould, B. As. pt. ix. pi. 



The nest and eggs, as figured by Mr. Hodgson, are very 

 Jay-like, — the former placed upon the radiating primary branch- 

 lets of a bamboo ; the latter biownish, with thickly-set minute 

 dark brown specks. Urocissa also builds a Jay's nest, as di- 

 stinguished from the covered fabric of a Magpie. 



676. Dendrocitta sinensis. 



Whether this name should be replaced by that of D. hiina- 

 laijensis (Ibis, 1865, p. 45) is still doubtful; for the supposed 

 Chinese species is from Formosa, D, sinensis, var. formosce, 

 Swinhoe (Ibis, 1866, pp. 296, 394). 



677. Dendrocitta frontalis, Macclelland; Gray and Mit- 

 chell, 111. Gen. B. pi. 75. 



