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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
blackish brown^ and the general colour of the body -plumage is less ashy 
and more vinaceous. 
The young have the bill orange at the gape and black on the remainder ; 
the eyelids pale blue with the edges orange; the inside of the mouth 
orange. 
The adult has the iris blue ; eyelids plumbeous ; bill black ; legs and 
claws dark brown ; inside of the mouth flesh-colour. 
-Length 12-5 inches,, tail 7'S, wing 4*1^ tarsus 1'05^ bill from gape '85. 
The female is of much the same size. 
This Magpie has the central tail-feathers narrower than in C. varianSj 
and more abruptly spatulate at their ends. 
The Hooded Racket-tailed Magpie was discovered by Dr. Jerdon at 
Thayetmyo^ and I found it very common in the neighbourhood of that 
station. It extends to the east about 20 miles to Taraagan^ and on the 
south about 10 miles to Palow. It probably extends some way to the 
west of the Irrawaddy river, and to the north of Thayetmyo it ranges 
into Upper Burmah for some distance. Colonel Lloyd appears to have 
sent it from Tonghoo ; but Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay expresses doubts as to 
its occurrence in that district, and I feel pretty sure it does not range so 
far to the east. 
This species is very similar in habits to C. varians, but is found almost 
entirely in bamboo-jungle. I was not able to discover its nest. , 
Genus CISSA, Boie, 
378. CISSA CHINENSIS. 
THE GREEN JAY. 
Coracias chinensis, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 38. Corvus speciosus, Shaw, Gen. 
Zool. vii. p. 364. Kitta venatoria, Gray, in Hardiv. III. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 2. Cissa 
sinensis (B?'tss.), Jerd. B. Ind, ii. p. 312 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 89. Cissa speciosa, 
Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 421 ; Hume, S. F. ill. p. 145, iv. p. 509 ; Bingham, 
S. F. V. p. 85. Cissa chinensis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iii. p. 85 ; Hume, 
S. F. viii. p. 106. 
Description. — Male and female. General body-plumage green ; the lores 
and a band through the eyes meeting behind on the nape black ; the cheeks_, 
sides of neck and lower plumage paler green; tail green^ the central 
feathers tipped with white_, the others tipped with white and with a subter- 
minal band of black ; lesser wing-coverts green ; the other coverts red ; 
wings brown on the inner webs, red on the outer ones ; the tertiaries and 
