Urocissa
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| Urocissa | |
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| Urocissa caerulea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Corvidae |
| Genus: | Urocissa Cabanis, 1851 |
| Type species | |
| Urocissa erythrorhyncha Cabanis, 1850
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| 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
[edit]The genus contains five species:[6]
| Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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| Taiwan blue magpie
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Urocissa caerulea Gould, 1863 |
Taiwan | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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| Red-billed blue magpie
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Urocissa erythroryncha (Boddaert, 1783) Five subspecies
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Western Himalayas eastwards into Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
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Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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| Yellow-billed blue magpie
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Urocissa flavirostris (Blyth, 1846) |
Indian subcontinent including the lower Himalayas, with a disjunct population in Vietnam | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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| Sri Lanka blue magpie
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Urocissa ornata (Wagler, 1829) |
Sri Lanka
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Size: Habitat: Diet: |
VU
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| White-winged magpie
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Urocissa whiteheadi Ogilvie-Grant, 1899 |
Southern China, northern Vietnam, and north and central Laos | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
EN
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Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 397. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ 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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