Urocissa
{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Urocissa
| image = Urocissa caerulea.jpg
| image_caption = Urocissa caerulea
| taxon = Urocissa
| authority = Cabanis, 1851
| type_species = Urocissa erythrorhyncha
| type_species_authority = Cabanis, 1850
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = * Urocissa caerulea
}}
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.{{ cite book | last=Cabanis | first=Jean | author-link=Jean Cabanis | year=1850–1851 | title=Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt | volume=1 | language=de, la | place=Halberstadt | publisher=R. Frantz | page=87 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49584466 }}{{efn|Some taxonomists date the publication of Cabanis's description to 1851.{{ cite book | last1=Dickinson | first1=E.C. | author1-link=Edward C. Dickinson | last2=Overstreet | first2=L.K. | last3=Dowsett | first3=R.J. | last4=Bruce | first4=M.D. | year=2011 | title=Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers | location=Northampton, UK | publisher=Aves Press | isbn=978-0-9568611-1-5 | pages=80–81 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267763194 }}{{ cite book | editor-last1=Dickinson | editor-first1=E.C. | editor1-link=Edward C. Dickinson | editor-last2=Christidis | editor-first2=L. | editor2-link=Leslie Christidis | year=2014 | title=The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World | volume=2: Passerines | edition=4th | place=Eastbourne, UK | publisher=Aves Press | isbn=978-0-9568611-2-2 | page=230 }}}} The type species was subsequently designated as the red-billed blue magpie (Urocissa erythroryncha).{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Greenway | editor2-first=James C. Jr | year=1962 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=15 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=240 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14485613 }} The name Urocissa combines the Ancient Greek oura meaning "tail" and kissa meaning "magpie" .{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url=https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n397 397] }}
Species
{{Species table |genus= Urocissa |authority-name= Cabanis|authority-year= 1851 |species-count=five|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}
{{Species table/row
|name=Taiwan blue magpie |binomial=Urocissa caerulea
|image=File:Urocissa caerulea, Taiwan 1.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Gould |authority-year=1863 |authority-not-original=
|range= Taiwan
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|iucn-status= LC
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|name= Red-billed blue magpie |binomial=Urocissa erythroryncha
|image=File:Red-billed Blue Magpie - Timlipani, Uttarakhand, India.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Boddaert|authority-year= 1783 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Western Himalayas eastwards into Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
|range-image=File:Urocissa erythrorhyncha map.jpg
|range-image-size=180px
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|iucn-status= LC
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Five subspecies |bullets=on
| 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)
}}
}}
{{Species table/row
|name= Yellow-billed blue magpie|binomial=Urocissa flavirostris
|image=File:Yellow-billed Blue Magpie Dugalbitta Chopta Uttarakhand India 13.06.2013.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Blyth |authority-year=1846 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Indian subcontinent including the lower Himalayas, with a disjunct population in Vietnam
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{{Species table/row
|name=Sri Lanka blue magpie |binomial=Urocissa ornata
|image=File:Flickr - Rainbirder - Ceylon Blue Magpie (Urocissa ornata).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Wagler |authority-year=1829 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= Sri Lanka
|range-image=File:Urocissa ornata distribution map.jpg
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|iucn-status= VU
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{{Species table/row
|name= White-winged magpie|binomial=Urocissa whiteheadi
|image=File:Urocissa whiteheadi illustration 2.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Ogilvie-Grant |authority-year=1899 |authority-not-original=
|range= Southern China, northern Vietnam, and north and central Laos
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|iucn-status= EN
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Notes
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References
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Urocissa|Urocissa}}
- {{Wikispecies-inline|Urocissa|Urocissa}}
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Category:Taxa named by Jean Cabanis
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