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CATALOGUE. 
table-land it is also rare, being met witli only occasionally in jungly 
districts, or in the neighbourhood of well-wooded villages. It fre- 
quents the highest jungles occasionally, not in their densest portions, 
however. It is found single or in pairs ; occasionally four or five 
being seen together. It lives, as far as I have ascertained, entirely 
on fruit of different kinds, and is very fond of the fruit of the 
Banian. It has a most peculiar cry, something like the metallic 
sound of the call of the Eacket-tailed Drongo {Dicrurus retifer), 
but its usual call is a harsh rattling cry, like that of the European 
Magpie." — (Jerdon.) 
849. DENDROCITTA PALLIDA, Blyth, Sp. 
Crypsirhina pallida, BlytJi, J. A. S. Beng. XY. ^. 30 
(1846). 
Dendrocitta pallida, Blyth, Catal. B. Mm. A. S. Beng. 
App. p. 336. 
a. ? . Shikarpore. From Griffith's Collection. 
" Plumage as in I), rufa, but altogether much paler ; the back 
and scapularies isabelline, with a shade of dusky, but devoid of any 
decided rufous tinge ; rump paler ; the belly and lower tail-coverts 
pure isabelline, or buffy cream-colour. The hue of the lower parts 
approaches that of the young of D. rufa, but the much firmer 
structure of the plumage, indicative of maturity, at once distin- 
guishes it from that species. 
Length about 15 in., of which the middle tail-feathers measure 
8f in., the outermost 4|in., less ; wing 5iiu., bill to gape nearly l\m.^ 
and tarse l-^- in."— (Blyth.) 
850. DENDROCITTA SINENSIS, Latham Sp. 
Corvus sinensis, Latham, Ind. Orn. I. p. 161 ; Gen. Hist. 
o/B. 111. p. 52. (Sonnerat, Voy. Ind. II. p. 187.) 
Dendrocitta sinensis, Gould, P. Z. S. (1837), p. 57 ; 
Trans. Zool. Soc. 1. p. 89. Hodgson, Catal. B. of 
Nepal, p. 102. Hutton, J. A. S. Beng. XVII. 
pt. 11. p. 682. Blyth, Gatal. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. 
p. 92. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 369. Calanis, Catal. 
B. Mus. Heine, p. 217. 
Pica sinensis, J. E. Gray, III. Ind. Zool. 1. t. 26. Gould, 
Cent, of Birds, t. 43. 
Crypsirhina sinensis, Hodgson, Gray^s Zool. Misc. (1844), 
p. 84. Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XII. p. 932 ; XV. 
p. 30. 
