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Urocissa

Urocissa
Urocissa caerulea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Corvidae
Subfamily: Cissinae
Genus: Urocissa
Cabanis, 1851
Type species
Urocissa erythrorhyncha
Cabanis, 1850
Species

Urocissa is a genus of birds in the Corvidae, a family that contains the crows, jays, and magpies.

The genus was established by German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1850.[1][a] The type species was subsequently designated as the red-billed blue magpie (Urocissa erythroryncha).[4] The name Urocissa combines the Ancient Greek oura meaning "tail" and kissa meaning "magpie" .[5]

Species

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The genus contains five species:[6]

Genus Urocissa – Cabanis, 1851 – five species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Taiwan blue magpie

Urocissa caerulea
Gould, 1863 		Taiwan Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Red-billed blue magpie

Urocissa erythroryncha
(Boddaert, 1783)

Five subspecies
  • U. e. occipitalis (Blyth, 1846)
  • U. e. magnirostris (Blyth, 1846)
  • U. e. alticola Birckhead, 1938
  • U. e. brevivexilla R. Swinhoe, 1874
  • U. e. erythroryncha (Boddaert, 1783)
Western Himalayas eastwards into Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and China
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Yellow-billed blue magpie

Urocissa flavirostris
(Blyth, 1846) 		Indian subcontinent including the lower Himalayas, with a disjunct population in Vietnam Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Sri Lanka blue magpie

Urocissa ornata
(Wagler, 1829) 		Sri Lanka
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 VU 


White-winged magpie

Urocissa whiteheadi
Ogilvie-Grant, 1899 		Southern China, northern Vietnam, and north and central Laos Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 EN 


Notes

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  1. ^ Some taxonomists date the publication of Cabanis's description to 1851.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ Cabanis, Jean (1850–1851). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German and Latin). Vol. 1. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 87.
  2. ^ Dickinson, E.C.; Overstreet, L.K.; Dowsett, R.J.; Bruce, M.D. (2011). Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers. Northampton, UK: Aves Press. pp. 80–81. ISBN 978-0-9568611-1-5.
  3. ^ Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds. (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 230. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2.
  4. ^ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1962). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 240.
  5. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 397. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  6. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Crows, mudnesters, birds-of-paradise". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
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