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140. Crypsirhina cucullata, Jerd. Ibis, 1862, p. 20; i/umf, Str. 



F. iii. p. 147 ; Ely. B. Burma, p. 88 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iii. p. 84; 

 Wardlaw- Ramsay, Ibis, 1887, P- 459; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 106. The 

 HOODF.D RACKET-TAILED MAGPIE, 



Head, chin, throat, primaries and their coverts black ; neck with a collar of 

 ashy white. Upper plumage, wing coverts and tertiaries vinaceous grey; under 

 surface the same, but more rufous ; central tail feathers black, the others like 

 the back paling to whitish at the tips; secondaries black, edged with ashy 

 white ; under wing coverts and inner bases of the quills whitish ; irides blue ; 

 eyelids plumbeous ; bill black ; legs dark brown. 



Length, 10*5 to 12-5 inches; wing 4 to 4*1 ; tail 6*8 to 7-8 ; tarsus 0-95. 



The young differs from the adult in having the hood dusky ashy instead of 

 black; lores, ear coverts and chin blackish brown and the top of the head 

 darker brown ; no white ring round the neck, the grey of the plumage duller 

 and dingier, and the quills and central tail feathers altogether duller coloured 

 (Hume), basal portion of bill, edges of the eyelids and inside of the mouth 

 orange. (Gates). 



Hab. Burmah and Upper Pegu. Has been noted from Thayetmyo, Palow 

 and Tounghoo. Affects bamboo brakes chiefly. Nothing is known of its 

 nidi'fication. 



Gen. 

 Eye surrounded by a fleshy ring. Head crested. 



141. Cissa ChinensiS, Bodd, Tab. PI. EnL p. 38; Sharpe, Cat. B. 

 Br. Mus. iii. p. 85 ; Hume, Str. F., viii. p. 106. Corvus speciosus, Shaw, 

 Gen. Zool. vii. p. 364. Cissa sinensis (Briss), Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 312 ; Bly. 

 B. Burma, p. 89 ; Cissa speciosa, Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 421 ; id. Str. F. 

 iii, p. 145 ; iv. p. 509; Bingham, Str. F. v. p. 85. The GREEN JAY. 



General colour green (in life), pale blue (in skin). Head crested ; lores 

 feathers round the eye, extending in a band round the nape and forming a 

 nuchal collar black ; cheeks, sides of neck and under surface of the body light 

 green or blue ; wings reddish brown ; the least wing coverts green like the 

 scapulars ; all the quills dull brown on the inner web, the innermost secon- 

 daries broadly tipped with bluish white, before which is a subterminal bar of 

 black ; tail pale blue or green, the two middle feathers white at tip, the rest 

 broadly tipped with white and with a broad subterminal band of black; bill 

 and legs bright coral red ; bare skin round the eye vermilion (Jerd.) ; edge of 

 eyelid coral red ; rest of it yellowish brown (Gates). Iris dark reddish brown, 

 (Jerd.), blood-red (Gates & Sharpe). 



Length. 15 to 15-5 inches; wing 5 '8 to 5-9 ; tail 7-8 to 8-5 ; tarsus 17 to 

 i'9 ; culmen 1-45 to r6. 

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