Crows (Corvidae)
Indochinese Green Magpie (Cissa hypoleuca) - HBW 14, p. 597
French: Pirolle à ventre jaune
German: Goldbauchelster
Spanish: Urraca Ventrigualda
Other common names: Yellow-breasted/Eastern (Green) Magpie
Taxonomy: Cissa hypoleuca Salvadori and Giglioli, 1885, Thu Dan Mot, Cochinchina, Vietnam.
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. chinensis and C. thalassina, and sometimes treated as conspecific with latter. Alternatively, races concolor and jini have sometimes been considered to represent a separate species, and katsumatae has likewise been treated as another full species. Five subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- jini Delacour, 1930 - SC China (S Sichuan S to S Guangxi).
- concolor Delacour & Jabouille, 1928 - N Vietnam (E Tonkin, N Annam).
- chauleti Delacour, 1926 - C Annam (Vietnam).
- jini Delacour, 1930 - SC China (S Sichuan S to S Guangxi).
- concolor Delacour & Jabouille, 1928 - N Vietnam (E Tonkin, N Annam).
- chauleti Delacour, 1926 - C Annam (Vietnam).
- hypoleuca Salvadori & Giglioli, 1885 - SE Thailand, C & S Laos and S Vietnam (S Annam and Cochinchina).
- katsumatae Rothschild, 1903 - Hainan I (S China).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A close-up of a bird perched. Locality Saigon Zoo, Ho Chi Minh City, Cochinchina, Vietnam (ssp hypoleuca)
Josep del Hoyo 10 April 2008 4 years ago 30 sec 3 -
This bird was one of the 8 bird seen in a flock, in Khao Soi Dao. Locality South Eastern Thailand, Thailand (ssp hypoleuca)
Yoel Jimenez 1 January 2010 3 years ago 15 sec 2.7
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Adult bird.
Locality Vogelpark Walsrode, Walsrode, Lower Saxony, Germany (ssp concolor)
Tomasz Doroń 6 October 2009 44 weeks ago 3.5 -
A close-up of the head.
Locality Saigon Zoo, Ho Chi Minh City, Cochinchina, Vietnam (ssp hypoleuca)
Josep del Hoyo 10 April 2008 4 years ago 2.5
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