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in 1840, though since withdrawn when he had the untoward idea of 
making the most unnatural amalgamation of Garruline under his 
arrangement of Psilorhinus! Those who call it Cissa are evidently 
wrong. I know three Indian species, nor do I believe in many more, 
at least among the described. Psilorhinus morio, fuliginosus or mext- 
canus, therefore, would have to stand alone, as Riippel probably in- 
tended it when he instituted the genus (excellent if not adulterated), 
if we had not from Chili a smaller new species as typical as the old 
one (Psilorhinus chilensis, Bp.). 
Still less than the other intruders can Gymnorhinus eyanocephalus, 
Wied, be forced into it, as the name alone ought to have taught. That 
name, however, was preoccupied, when, in 1840, the Prince of Neu- 
wied proposed it for his new genus: and it was very reluctantly, and 
after requesting in vain the author to change it himself, that I was 
compelled in 1842 to make it Cyanocephalus, calling the bird Cyano- 
cephalus Wiedi, as a small compensation and a testimony of personal 
regard to the author, with whom I have long corresponded and pro- 
secuted all kinds of satisfactory scientific affairs. Now, in 1850, he 
requests me to take his new name of Gymnokitta, and I most willingly 
adopt it, hoping that all ornithologists will make an exception to the 
rule of priority in this very peculiar case, in which, after all, the 
Prince of Wied claims his own genus with a better name. 
Intermediate between Garrulus and Pica, we come now to my 
Cyanopica, a genus of Blue Magpies about which some English 
journalists have chattered like pied (or rather paid) Magpies ! Tsub- 
join here the phrases of its three species, that of Vaillant, Pallas, and 
Capt. Cook, now Widdrington (so closely allied as to be taken for 
three races of but one species), to show they are really distinct, 
although the characters hitherto assigned to them by the most clever 
and accurate naturalists may have proved inconstant and fallacious. 
1. CYANOPICA MELANOCEPHALA, Bp. Capite subcristato, ex 
toto cum guld nigro: dorso cerulescenti: rectricibus omnibus 
albo terminatis. 
Synonyms. 
Corvus cyaneus, Lath., Vieill. 
Pica melanocephalos, Wagl. 
Cyanopica Vaillanti, Bp. in litt.; Levaillant, Ois. Afr. t. 58. 
Hab. in China, 
2. Cyanopica cYANEA, Bp. Capite levi, supra tantum nigro- 
chalybeo : dorso cinereo-vinaceo, nucha vie canescente: rectri- 
cibus lateralibus apice tantum albis, mediis valde elongatis late 
albo terminatis. 
Synonyms. 
Corvus cyaneus, Pall. 
Pica cyanea, Wagl., Schleg. 
Cyanopica Pallasi, Bp. in litt. ; Faun. Japon. t. 42. 
Hab. in Asia orientali, Daouria, Japan. 
