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North America, which constitute his Cyanocitta, An. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 1845, p. 260; but as Corvus cristatus, Lin., is the type of Mr. Swain- 

 son's Cyanurus, I conceive that this must take precedence of Cyanocitta, 

 Strickland. 



Crypsirina, Vieillot : Phrenotrix, Horsfield : Dendrocitta, Gould. Some 

 attempt was made at collating the Indian species of this group of Mag- 

 pies, in XII, 932. I now add another species, and shall endeavour to 

 assort the synonymes. 



1. Cr. rufa; Corvus rufus, Scopoli, Lath., founded on la Pie rousse 

 de la Chine of Sonnerat, badly figured by Levaillant : also Coracias vaga- 

 bunda, Latham ; and perhaps Pica rufiventris, Vieillot, Shaw's Zoology, 

 XIV, 73. India generally. 



2. Cr. pallida, nobis. Distinguished from the last by its consider- 

 ably smaller size and paler colouring. Length about fifteen inches, of 

 which the middle tail-feathers measure eight and three-quarters, the 

 outermost four inches and five-eighths less ; wing five inches and a half ; 

 bill to gape nearly an inch and a quarter ; tarse an inch and one-eighth. 

 Plumage as in Cr. rufa, but altogether much paler : the back and sca- 

 pularies isabelline with a shade of dusky, but devoid of any decided 

 rufous tinge ; rump paler, the belly and lower tail-coverts pure isabel- 

 line, or buffy cream-colour. The hue of the lower-parts approaches 

 that of the young of Cr. rufa ; but the much firmer structure of the 

 plumage, indicative of maturity, at once distinguishes it from the latter. 

 Hab. Western Himalaya. This species, and the young of Psilor- 

 hinus albicapillus, were obtained in a small collection from that part, 

 purchased in Calcutta by Prof. Behn, of Kiel University, who first 

 called my attention to the distinctness of each of them from its near 

 congener, and kindly permitted me to draw up descriptions for publica- 

 tion.* 



3. Cr. sinensis.]- — 4. Cr. leucogastra. — 5. Cr. rufigastra (non vidij, 

 vide XII, 933. — And 6. the Cr. altirostris will, I suspect, prove to be the 

 same as Cr. frontalis, from the description of which it deviates only in 



* Both would seem to be rare. Capt. Hutton never met with Ps» albicapillus, 

 during the long time that he has collected in the W. Himalaya; and Capt. Boys has 

 only once obtained Cr. pallida, many years ago. 



t Very doubtful as an inhabitant of Southern India. Jerdon. 



