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purplish ashy ; upper tail-coverts, with some small black spots ; 

 wings and tail dull cobalt blue, with an ashy tinge ; the quills black 

 on their inner webs, and white tipped, and the tail feathers broadly 

 tipped black and white, except the centre pair which are only 

 tipped with white ; beneath, from breast whitish, with a strong 

 tinge of purplish ashy. 



Bill yellow ; legs orange yellow ; irides brownish red-. Length 

 24 inches ; wing 1\ ; tail 16 ; tarsus If ; bill at front If. 



This species differs from the last in its generally duller hue, 

 yellow bill, and small occipital mark ; the legs, too, are shorter, 

 and not so strong. 



The Yellow-billed Magpie is found throughout the Himalayas, 

 but confined to certain localities. It is found in Cashmere and at 

 Jummoo, in Kumaon, in parts of Nepal, and in Sikhim, where it 

 is the only species. It occurs about Darjeeling from 6,000 feet 

 to 10,000 feet or so ; wanders about a good deal, generally flying 

 low, and alighting on low trees and shrubs, sometimes on a stone, 

 or the stump of a tree. It lives chiefly on large insects, grass- 

 hoppers, locusts, &c, and it has a loud ringing call which the natives 

 attempt to imitate in the names given above. I had the nest and 

 eggs brought me once. The nest was made of sticks and roots ; 

 the eggs, three in number, were of a greenish fawn colour, very 

 faintly blotched with brown. 



Another species of Urocissa is found in Burmah, U. magni- 

 rostris of Blyth, exceedingly similar to U. sinensis. I obtained 

 it at Thayet Myo. Bonaparte, in his Conspectus, has two long-tailed 

 Jays with black bills from Eastern Asia, which he classes under 

 Cyanurus. 



The next genus is also exclusively Indian, and there are only 

 three known species. 



Gen. CiSSA, Boie. 



Syn. Corapica, Lesson — Kitta, Temminck — Citta, Wagler — 

 C/dorisoma, Swainson. 



Char. — Bill strong, robust, compressed, moderately long, gently 

 curved and hooked, and slightly notched at the tip ; gonys 

 curving upwards ; nostrils basal, impended by short bristles and 



