Crows (Corvidae)

Common Green Magpie (Cissa chinensis) - HBW 14, p. 597

French: Pirolle verte German: Jagdelster Spanish: Urraca Verde
Other common names: (Chinese) Green Magpie, Hunting Greenpie/Cissa, Green Hunting Crow

Taxonomy: Coracias chinensis Boddaert, 1783, Mergui, Tenasserim, Myanmar.
Although often expanded to encompass Urocissa, present genus is distinctive in appearance of its members (the green magpies). This species forms a superspecies with C. hypoleuca and C. thalassina. Race robinsoni poorly differentiated from minor, and perhaps better merged with it. Five subspecies tentatively recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

chinensis ( Boddaert, 1783) - Himalayas from Uttarakhand (Garhwal) E to NE India (Arunachal Pradesh, S Assam hills), EC Bangladesh, N Myanmar, extreme S China (S Yunnan and SW Guangxi), N Laos and Vietnam (N Annam), and possibly also S Laos.
klossi Delacour & Jabouille, 1924 - C Annam (Vietnam) and C Laos.
margaritae Robinson & Kloss, 1919 - Mt Lang Bian (C/S Annam) in Vietnam.

See all 5 subspecies

chinensis ( Boddaert, 1783) - Himalayas from Uttarakhand (Garhwal) E to NE India (Arunachal Pradesh, S Assam hills), EC Bangladesh, N Myanmar, extreme S China (S Yunnan and SW Guangxi), N Laos and Vietnam (N Annam), and possibly also S Laos.
klossi Delacour & Jabouille, 1924 - C Annam (Vietnam) and C Laos.
margaritae Robinson & Kloss, 1919 - Mt Lang Bian (C/S Annam) in Vietnam.
robinsoni Ogilvie-Grant, 1906 - extreme SW Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia.
minor Cabanis, 1851 - Sumatra and Borneo.