418 Zoological Society. 



3. Cyanurus dairi, Bp. Cyaneus, subttis omnino albua : crista 

 occipitali long a ; rectricibus mediis valde elongatis ; omnibus 

 apice niffris. 



Hob. in Asia magis orientali, Corea. 



4. Cyanurus cubo, Bp. Cyaneus, subtus antics niger : crista 

 nulla : rectricibus mediis valde elongatis ; omnibus apice albis. 



Synonym. 

 San-zjak, Japonens. (which name appUes also to the red-billed Calo- 

 citta sinensis) . 



Hab. in Asia magis orientali, Corea. 



Naturalists acquainted with the two American species will see, in- 

 dependentlj^ of these phrases, how much more strongly the characters 

 contrast between my two new Asiatic species than between the old 

 American ones, although in some aspects they may be considered to 

 bear to each other the same relations. At all events that I should 

 be excused, if not justified, my Chinese Black-billed Cyanuri must on 

 every account be followed and supported by Schlegel's own genus 

 Biophorus and by its only species Biophorus paradisiacus of the 

 Fauna Japonica, Av. Suppl. tab. B. Of this splendid bird also the 

 portrait only has yet reached Europe, taken by a Japanese artist from 

 the liAang bird under the eye of the celebrated Siebold, who is war- 

 rant of its correctness. 



The next genus mil be that of the red-billed, long-tailed, Blue 

 Magpies, to which I give the name of Calocitta, not being able to " 

 apply to the group any older than that given to it by my friend Gray 

 in 1 840, though since withdrawn when he had the untoward idea of 

 making the most unnatural amalgamation of Garrulince 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, fidiginosus or mexi- 

 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 cyanocephalus, 

 Wied, be foi-ced 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 



