Urocissa

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

Urocissa
Urocissa caerulea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Corvidae
Genus:	Urocissa Cabanis, 1850
Species
Urocissa caerulea Urocissa erythroryncha Urocissa flavirostris Urocissa whiteheadi Urocissa ornata

The genus was established by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1850.[1][lower-alpha 1] 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]

The genus contains five species:[6]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Urocissa caerulea	Taiwan blue magpie	Taiwan
	Urocissa erythroryncha	Red-billed blue magpie	Western Himalayas eastwards into Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
	Urocissa flavirostris	Yellow-billed blue magpie	Indian Subcontinent including the lower Himalayas, with a disjunct population in Vietnam
	Urocissa ornata	Sri Lanka blue magpie	Sri Lanka
	Urocissa whiteheadi	White-winged magpie	Southern China, northern Vietnam, and north and central Laos

Notes

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

References

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). Volume 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. Volume 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. Volume 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.

External links

• Media related to Urocissa at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Urocissa at Wikispecies