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CYANOPICA COOKI. 



(AZURE-WINGED MAGPIE.) 



Pica cyanea, Wagler, Syst. Av. Genus Pica, no. 6 (1827, partim). 



Pica cyanea, Cook, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 96 (nee Pall.). 



Pica cyana (Pall.), Keyserl. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. 45 (1840, partim, nee Pall.). 



Pica cooki, Bp. Brit. Assoc. Birming. 1849, p. 75. 



Cyanopica cooki, Bp. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 86. 



Cyanopolius cooki, Bp. torn. cit. p. 86. 



Dolometis cooki (Bp.), Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 222 (1850). 



Cyanopica europcea, Schlegel, fide Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. p. 382 (1850). 



Babilongo, Portuguese ; Mohino, Bahilargo, Spanish. 



Figures notabiles. 

 Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 217; Susemihl, Vog. Eur. ii. tab. 5 ; Bree, B. of Eur. i. pi. to p. 140. 



<J ad. capite supra et lateraliter nuchaque intense velutino-nigris : dorso, uropygio cum scapularibus brunnes- 

 centi-cinereis : tectricibus alarum, remigibus dorso proximis, cseteris in pogonio externo, et cauda, tota 

 cseruleis : remigibus primariis in pogonio externo a medio ad apicem albis, duobus externis fere omnino 

 nigris : corpore subtus albo : pectore, abdomine et crisso brunnescente cinereo lavatis : cauda, cuneata : 

 rostro et pedibus nigris : iride saturate fusea. 



$ ad. baud a mare distinguenda. 



Adult Male (Madrid, May). Crown, nape, and sides of tbe head velvety jet-black; back, scapulars, and 

 ramp brownish grey, or dove-coloured ; upper tail-coverts washed with bluish grey ; first and second 

 primaries black, slightly marked with blue at the base of the outer web, remainder black on the inner 

 web, and on the outer web rich blue on the basal half or two thirds, and white on the terminal third or 

 half; secondaries rich blue, the outer ones, however, being black on the inner web; tad rich blue, 

 some of the outer feathers very slightly tipped with dirty white, much graduated, the central feathers 

 being 4 to 4J inches longer than the outermost ; underparts white, on the breast, flanks, and under 

 tail-coverts washed with ashy brown ; beaks and legs black ; iris blackish brown. Total length 13 - 25 

 inches, culmen TO, wing 53, tail 8 - 2, tarsus 1*4. 



Adult Female (Madrid 15th May) . Closely resembles the male, but is, if any thing, a trifle duller in colour. 



Young. I have no specimen of the young ; but, so far as I recollect, they have the black on the head duller 

 than in the adult, and the feathers there edged with greyish brown. Susemihl also figures the young 

 bird thus. 



The range of this, one of the most beautiful of our European birds, is very restricted ; for it 

 occurs solely on the Iberian peninsula, and is there only locally distributed. Singularly enough, 



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