Urocissa
| Urocissa | |
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Urocissa caerulea
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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
, 1850 | |
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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]
The genus contains five species:[6]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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U. caerulea | Taiwan blue magpie | Taiwan |
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U. erythroryncha | Red-billed blue magpie | Western Himalayas eastwards into Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam |
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U. flavirostris | Yellow-billed blue magpie | Indian subcontinent including the lower Himalayas, with a disjunct population in Vietnam |
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U. ornata | Sri Lanka blue magpie | Sri Lanka |
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U. whiteheadi | White-winged magpie | Southern China, northern Vietnam, and north and central Laos |
Notes
References
- ^ 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.
- ISBN 978-0-9568611-1-5.
- 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.
- 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.
