Capt. Beavan on various Indian Birds. 169 



2-125 ; bill from front 1-375, height at base -6875. The fully 

 fledged young bird has a great deal of dark purple about the 

 bill, which evidently only acquires its orange-red in the niaturc 

 adult. In two specimens of the young now before me one has 

 the bill nearly black, and the other much the same colom*, but 

 with orange-yellow at the tip, and along the ridges of both 

 mandibles. The under wing-coverts, and quills of wings un- 

 derneath in these are light saffron-yellow ; and the lower parts 

 generally are of the same hue, somewhat lighter in tint ; legs 

 dull red, claws darker. 



672. Urocissa cucullata. 5fellow-billed Blue Magpie. 



I obtained one in April 1862, on the road to Tongloo, at an 

 elevation of about 8000 feet. 



At Simla, in July 1866, my shikaree brought a somewhat 

 damaged specimen of this bird, which was the only one I ever 

 saw there. At first I took it for the preceding species, until 

 happening to put all my specimens of the genus side by side, I 

 was at once struck by the difference of colour in the bill ; but 

 otherwise the two birds very nearly resemble each other. 



673. CissA SINENSIS. Green Jay. 



Darjeeling collection, 1862, obtained at an elevation of about 

 8000 feet. I have seen specimens collected in Tipperah *. 



674. Dendrocitta rufa f- Common Indian Magpie. 

 Common about Barrackpore, where it breeds. Rare in Maun- 



* There seems to be some error in the dimensions assigned to the 

 length and expanse of this bird by Dr. Jerdon. 



t [Lord Walden has been good enough to send us the following 

 note : — " The name riifus was given to the common Indian JNIag-pie by 

 Latham (Ind. Orn. i, p, 161), and not by Scopoli, although generally 

 attributed to the latter by all writers (Sundevall excepted) since Mr. 

 Blyth (.1. A. S. B. 1846, p. 30) quoted Scopoli as the authority. Latham 

 described his 'Rufous Crow ' ( S^oiops. Suppl. i. p. 84) from Sonnerat's de- 

 scription and plate (Voy. Ind. ii. p. 186, pi. 106) of his ' Pie rousse de la 

 Chine ' — a plate which Scopoli omitted to notice in his paper on Son- 

 nerat's specimens (Fl. & Faim. Insub. ii. p. 84). Latham's name rufus 

 takes precedence, though by a few pages only, of his name rar/ahimdiis ; 

 but this last designation, founded on Lady Impey's drawings, will have 

 to be adopted for the Indian bird, should a Chinese representative be dis- 

 covered differing specifically from the Indian form." — Ed.] 



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