DENDEOCITTA. 591 



p. 554, 1856-58; Gray, HandL, vol. ii, p. 10, 1870; David, N. Arch. Mus., t. vii, Bull., 



p. 9, 1871 ; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 382; David, Journ. de Voy. en Chine, t. ii 



1876, p. 40. 

 Pica varia, Schleg., Eev. Crit., p. 54, 1844; id., Dier. Nederl., pi. xiii, figs. 7, 7a, 1861 : id., Mus. 



P.-B. Coraces, p. 39, 1867; Kjarb., Orn. Dan., pi. xii, fig. %, 1852. 

 Pica *mcm, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1845, p. 2; Gray, Gen. B., vol. ii, p. 314, 1845; Bonap. 



Consp., t. i, p. 383, 1850. 

 Clejjtes hudsonicus, Gambel, Journ. Acad. N. Sir. Philad., 1847, p. 47. 

 Pica tihetana, Hodgs., Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. iii, p. 203, 1849. 

 Pica varia japonica, Schleg., Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 81, 1850. 



Picajaponica, Bonap. Consp., vol. i, p. 383, 1850; Gray, Handl. B., vol. ii, p. 10, 1870. 

 Pica hutanensis, Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 383, 1850. 

 Clepiespica, Cab., Mus. Hein., th. i, p. 229, 1850. 

 Pica vulgaris, Brehm, Journ. f. Orn., 1858, p. 173. 



Pica leucoptera, Gould, B. Asia, pt. xiv, 1862; Gray, Handl. B., vol. ii, p. 10, 1870. 

 Pica Tustica, Dresser, B. Eur., pt. xxii, 1873; Irby, B. Gibr., p. 129, 1875; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, 



p. 238 ; Blanf., E. Persia, p. 264, 1876. 

 Pica tnelanoleuca, var. Jmdsonica, Cones, Key N. Amer. B., p. 164, 1872. 

 Pica caudata, var. haciriana, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn., p. 64, 1873. 

 Pica caudata, var. hudsonica, Baird, Brewer & Kidgw,, N. Amer. B., p. 266, 1874. 

 Pica pica, Sharpe, Cat, B. B. M., vol. iii, p. 62, 1877. 



a. e. t h^ Bhamo, 20th January 1875. 

 /. 9' % t Ponsee, 5th May 1868. 



As a rule, the European birds have brighter coloured central tail-feathers than 

 the Asiatic ones, but I have a Bhamo specimen with a tail almost as bright as in 

 any European bird. The extent of the white on the wing varies very slightly. My 

 first specimens were procured at Bhamo, where it is not very common. When the 

 Kakhyen hills were reached it became more numerous, but not to the great extent 

 which characterised it in the country to the east, where it may be said to take 

 the place of Crows, near villages. It is so prevalent that one of the first obser- 

 vations a traveller makes on entering the country is that it is a land of Magpies. 

 The Yunnan buds have all the habits of those described by Swinhoe of roosting 

 in company and sallying out for food and returning at night, cackKng and curvet- 

 ing with sundry antics. The Magpies appeared at our camp at Ponsee about the 

 beginning of April and were breeding in a high tree, close to a small rookery of 

 Qorxius levaillanti. Swinhoe mentions that he has skins of P. rustica from 

 Amoy, in which the white band on the rump is scarcely visible, which is a character 

 of the rump-band of the so-called P. bottanensis, Desh. 



Genus Dendrocitta, Gould. 

 43. Dendrocitta rupa, Scopoli. 



La Pie rousse de la Chine, Sonn. Voy. Ind., t. ii, p. 186, pi. 106, 1782. 



Rufous Crow, Lath., Gen. Syn. Suppl., p. 84, 1790. 



Grey -tailed Roller, Lath., Gen. Syn. Suppl., p. 86, 1787. 



Laimis rufus, Scop., Del. Faun, et Flor. Insubr., t. ii, p. 86, 1786. 



