Urocissa Cabanis, 1850 sec. Droege, G., Corvids of the World

Distribution
Asia-Temperate China (China North-Central ‒ nativeA, China South-Central ‒ nativeA, China Southeast ‒ nativeA, Hainan (Hainan ‒ nativeA), Inner Mongolia ‒ nativeA, Manchuria (Liaoning ‒ nativeA,1), Tibet (Tibet ‒ nativeA,2)); Eastern Asia (Taiwan (Taiwan ‒ nativeA)), Asia-Tropical Indian Subcontinent (Assam (Mizoram ‒ nativeA, Tripura ‒ nativeA), East Himalaya ‒ nativeA, Nepal (Nepal ‒ nativeA), Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka ‒ nativeA), West Himalaya ‒ nativeA); Indo-China ‒ nativeA
Description
Nostrils situated near base of culmen and covered by rather soft plumes contra stiff bristles in true magpies (Pica).B
Type specimens (Remarks)
Cabanis listed two species and the type was subsequently designated as Cuculus sinensis Linnaeus by Gray (1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 63). However, according to Hartert (1921, Vög. pal. Fauna, p.2027), Cuculus sinensis Linnaeus is not identifiable and the correct type of Urocissa is erythrorhyncha (=Corvus erythrorhyncha Boddaert).E
Bibliography
C. Makatsch, W., Brood parasitism in birds. [Der Brutparasitismus in der Vogelwelt.]. 1955: 192 [8672]