Comma rufus, Lath., Ind. Om., vol. i, p. 16, 1790.
Coraciaa vagabunda, Lath., Ind. Om., vol. i, p. 171, 1790.
La Pie rousse, Levaill., Ois. d'Afr., t. ii, p. 81, pi. lix, 1801.
Pica rufa, Vieill., N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., t. xxvi, p. 180, 1808; Steph., Gen. Zool., vol. xiv, p. 64,
1826; Wagl., Isis, 1829, p. 750; Sundev., Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. xviii, p. 168, 1846.
Pica vagabunda, Vieill., N. Diet., t. xxvi, p. 121, 1818; Wagl., Syst. An. Pica, sp. 5, 1827;
Gould, Cent. Himal. B., pi. xlii, 1882; Gray in Hardw., 111. Ind. Zool., vol. i, pi. xxv.
Dendrocittq vagabunda, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1888, p. 57; et Trans. Zool. Soc.,.vol. i, p. 89,1888;
Gray, Cat. Hodgs. Coll., Nepal, p. 101, 1846; Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 869, 1850.
Crypairhina vagabunda, Swainson, Classif. B., vol. ii, p. 266, 1887 ; Jerdon, Madr. Joum., vol. xi,
p. 19, 1840; Blyth, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xii, p. 932, 1848; vol. xiii, p. 889, 1844;
Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 84, 1844.
Crypairhina rufa, Swainson, Classif. B., vol. ii, p. 266, 1887; Blyth, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal,
xv, p. 80, 1846.
JDendrocitta rufa, Hartl., Syst. Verz., 1844, p. 60, 1844; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc., Bengal,
p. 92, 1849; Cab., Mus. Hein., th. i, p. 216, 1850 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind.
Co., vol. ii, p. 565, 1854; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 814, 1868; Gray, Handl. B., vol. ii, p. 8,
1870; Godwin-Austen, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxix, 1870, p. 110; Hume, Stray
Feathers, 1878, p. 206; Adam., t. c., p. 886; Hume, op. cit., 1874, p. 480; id., Nests
and Eggs, Ind. B.,. p. 421, 1878; Blyth & Walden, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xliv,
1875; Butler, Stray Feathers, 1877, p. 85; Fairbank, t. c., p. 260; Armstrong, t. c., p. 881;
Sharpe, Cat. Birds, B. M., vol. iii, 1877, p. 76.
Temmerua rufus, Gray, Gen. B., vol. ii, p. 810, 1845.
Temmerus vagdbundua, Gray, I. c., p. 810, 1845.
Crypairhina pallida, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xv, p. 80, 1846.
Dendrocittapallida, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc., Bengal, p. 886, 1849; Horsf. & Moore, Cat.
B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., vol. ii, p. 568, 1854; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 815, 1863; Gray, Handl.
B., vol. ii, p. 8, 1870.
Vagabunda rufa, Kaup., Joum. f. Om., 1854, p. lv; Ball, Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 418.
Glaucopia rufa, Schleg., Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 77, 1867.
a. Katha, 20th January 1868.
I procured only one specimen of this species which does not appear to
he common in Upper Burma.
Genus U r o c i s s a , Cabanis.
4Â. U r o c i s s a m a g n i r o s t r i s , Blyth.
Pailorhinua magnirostris, Blyth, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xv, p. 27, 1846 ; id., Cat. B. Mus.,
As. Soc., Bengal, p. 98, 1849.
Calocitta magniroatria, Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 881, 1850.
Urociaaa magniroatria, Cab., Mus. Hein., th. i, p. 87, note, 1850 ; Gould, B. Asia, pt. xiii, 1861 ;
Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 311, 1862 ; Godwin-Austen, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xlii, 1874,
p. 170 ; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 480, 1875, p. 145; Blyth & Walden, Joum. As.
Soc., vol. xliv, 1875, p. 88 ; W. Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 460 ; Sharpe, Cat. H. B. M., vol. iii,
1877, p. 71.
Ciaaa magniroatria, Gray, Handl. B., vol. ii, p. 7, 1870.
a. Upper Burma, 2nd and 16th June 1868.
b. Hotha valley, Yunnan, 8th August 1868.
The evidence which has already been adduced regarding the character assigned
by Blyth to this supposed species seems all to tend in the direction of proving
it to he only a local race distinguished by a somewhat longer bill.
A large series of birds will in all probability show that even the large bill is
not a stable character.
Having examined the type, I am disposed to think that the great naked space
described by Blyth as surrounding the eye is chiefly due to the accidental loss of
feathers, and that the area does not differ in its dimensions from the corresponding
area in 77. occipitalis, and Mr. Hume distinctly states that there is no naked space
surrounding the eyes. Captain Wardlaw Ramsay has recently remarked that the
colouring of the wings is not more bright than in TJ. occipitalis.
A number of adults of this species appeared at Ponsee, shortly before our
departure, along with Pica rustica and C. levaillanti, and were daily seen near our
camp which was close to the village. Mr. Oates, as quoted by Hume, remarks that
“ it likes the neighbourhood of villages in forest country,” and Hume calls attention
to the difference in this respect between 77. magnirostris and 77. occipitalis, the
latter having never been observed by him in the immediate vicinity of villages.
None of these birds were observed at Ponsee during the first month of our detention,
and as Pica rustica began immediately with the Crows to build their nests on
their arrival, I conclude that 77. magnirostris arrived for a similar purpose. In
connection with these facts it is as well to point out that the country to the east is
singularly denuded of forest.
F&mïïy—STUJRNILÆ.
Genus A c r i d o t h e r e s , Vieillot,
45. A c r id o t h e r e s t r i s t i s , Linn.
Paradiaea triatis, Linn., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 167, 1766; Buff., PI. Enl., 219, 1788.
Gracula gryllivora, Dand., Traité d'Orn., t. ii, p. 285, 1800.
Acridotherea triatia, VieilL, Analyse, p. , 1816 ; Pears., Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, p. 648,
1841 ; Blyth, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xiii, p. 861, 1844 ; vol. xv, p. 814, 1846 ; id.,
Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. xx, p. 884, 1847 ; Gray, Gen. B., vol. ii, p. 885, 1847 ; Tickell, Joum.
As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xvii, p. 804, 1848; Hutton, t. c., p. 8 ; Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 419,
1850; Cab., Mus. Hein., th. i, p. 205, 1850; Layard, Ann. Nat. Hist. (2), Vol. xiii,
p. 218, 1854; Tytler, t. c., p. 868, 1854; Theob., Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxiii,
p. 597, 1855; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., vol. ii, p. 582, 1856; Jerdon, B.
Ind., vol. ii, p. 825,1868 ; Gray, Handl. B., vol. ii, p. 19, 1870 ; Godwin-Austen, Joum. As.
Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxix, 1870, p. 110 ; Holdsw., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1872, p. 462 ; Hume, Stray
Feathers, _1878, pp. 207, 440; Adam., t. c., p. 886; Ball, op. cit., 1874, p. 419 ; Hume;
t. c., pp. 246, 480; id., op. cit., 1875, p. 146; id., Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 428, 1873 ;
Blyth & Walden, Joum. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xliv, ex. No., p. 90, 1875; W. T. Blanford,
op. cii.j Vol. xlv, 1876, p. 91 ; Butler, Stray Feathers, 1877, p. 35; Fairbank, t. c„ p. 260;
Hume, t. c., p. 279 ; id., p. 456,1877, p. 88 ; Oates, t. c., p. 160 ; Gammie, t. c., p. 384 ; Fairbank,
t. c., pp. 891, 407.
Gracula triatia, Lath., Gen. Hist., vol. iii, p. 147, 1822; Sundev., Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. xviii,
p. 803, 1846.
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