DENDEOCITTA. 591 



p. 554, 1856-58; Gray, Haudl., vol. ii, p. 10, 187(1; David, N. Aroh. Mus., t. vii, Bull., 



p. 9, 1871; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 38iij David, Journ. de Voy. en Chine, t. ii, 



1875, p. 40. 

 Tiea varia, Schleg., Rev. Crit., p. 54, 1844; id., Dier. Nederl., pi. xiii, figs. 7, la, 1861 : id., Mus. 



P.-B. Coraces, p. 39, 1867 ; Kjarb., Orn. Dan., pi. xii, fig. 2, 1852. 

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



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

 Cleptes hwdsonictts, Gambel, Journ. Acad. N. Sir. Pliilad., 1847, p. 47. 

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

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



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

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

 Cleptes pica, 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 rustica, Dresser, B. Eur., pt. xxii, 1873; Irby, B. Gibr., p. 129, 1875; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, 



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

 Pica melanoleuca, var. hudsonica, Cones, Key N. Amer. B., p. 164, 1872. 

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

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

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



«. e. S & ? Bhamo, 20th January 1875. 

 f. g. i 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 taU 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 Bham6, 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 vUlages. 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 birds have all the habits of those described by Swiahoe of roosting 

 in company and sallying out for food and returning at night, cackling 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 

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

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

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



Genus Dendrocitta, Gould. 

 43. Dbndeocitta rufa, Scoj)oli. 



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 Holler, Lath., Gen. Syn. Suppl., p. 86, 1787. 



Lanius rufus, Scop., Del. Faun, at Flor. Insubr., t. ii, p. 86, 1786. 



