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casionally find its way down to Amoy, a distance of over 1000 miles. 

 We might, perhaps, regard the South-China bird as a race of itself, 

 with a frequent tendency to revert to the typical form. 



The tail of P. caudata from Holland and England is very much 

 bronzed, much more so than that of the Pekin bird, but in no greater 

 degree differing than does the Pekin bird and one from Amoy from 

 the majority of those from that locality. The tail of P. numidica is 

 similarly dififerent from that of the English bird ; and, on analogy, it 

 is therefore hot improbable that the Amoor bird would more nearly 

 approach the Dutch and English in brightness. 



221. Cyanopica cyanea. Pall. 



Pica melanocephalos, Wagl. 



Abundant from Shanghai to Pekin, thence into Amoorland and 

 Japan. A resident species. I have not been able to recognize two 

 distinct species in these, as is done by Bonaparte in his Conspectus, 

 p. 382. 



222. Urocissa sinensis, L. 



A resident species on all the wooded hills from Canton to Ningpo, 

 represented in Formosa by another species, the U. ccerulea, Gould. 

 The male has a much larger bill than the female, of a uniform 

 orange-red, and not tipped, like hers, on the apical culmen with black. 

 The young bird has a brownish-yellow bill, brown legs and irides. 

 Crown of head pale grey ; nasal feathers, cheeks, and sides of neck 

 light black, lighter on the under neck, and nearly grey on the throat. 

 The rest of the plumage paler and duskier than in the adult. 



This species was procured by Captain Blakiston near Ichang, 

 1100 miles up the Yangtsze ; so that its range would appear to extend 

 throughout entire Southern China. 



223. Dendrocitta sinensis. Lath. 



Said to inhabit the mountains of South China. 



224. Garrulus sinensis, Gould. 



Very closely allied to G. bispecularis, Gould, of the Himalayas. 

 Ranges in China from Canton to Ningpo. Further north, it is repre- 

 sented by another species, of which I have no specimens, but which I 

 believe to be the G. brandtii, Eversm., a bird found also in Amoor- 

 land, and lately procured in Hakodadi, North Japan, by Capt. Bla- 

 kiston. South Japan produces an ally of G. glandarius, in G. japo- 

 nicus, Schleg., and Formosa a diminutive ally of G. sinensis, in G. in- 

 sularis, Gould. 



22.5. Lycos dauricus. 



Corvus dauricus (Pall.), Faun. Japon. t. 41. 



Abundant about Pekin, thence ranging north into Amoorland. 

 and west into Siberia. I have not traced it further south into China, 

 It also occurs in Japan. 



