Common Green Magpie (Cissa chinensis)

Other Names (World)
Common Green Magpie, Green Magpie, Chinese Green Magpie, Hunting Greenpie, Hunting Cissa, Green Hunting Crow, Common Green-Magpie

Family
Corvidae (Crows And Jays)

Size
37 - 40.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Boddaert, 1783)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, lowland moist shrubland.

Range (Guide)

Bhutan, Cambodia, China (mainland), India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (108)...)

Common Green Magpie (Cissa chinensis) [XC290991]
by Marc Anderson from , Malaysia (subsong)

Common Green Magpie (Cissa chinensis) [XC651700]
by Kaeden Bim from , Bhutan (?)

Subspecies
Although often expanded to encompass Urocissa, present genus is distinctive in appearance of its members (the green magpies). This species forms a superspecies with Indochinese Green Magpie (Cissa hypoleuca) and Javan Green Magpie (Cissa thalassina). Subspecies robinsoni poorly differentiated from minor, and perhaps better merged with it.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

chinensis (Boddaert, 1783) - Himalayas from Uttarakhand (Garhwal) east to north-eastern India (Arunachal Pradesh, southern Assam hills), east-central Bangladesh, northern Myanmar, extreme southern China (southern Yunnan and south-western Guangxi), northern Laos and Vietnam (northern Annam), and possibly also southern Laos.
klossi Delacour & Jabouille, 1924 - Central Annam (Vietnam) and central Laos.
margaritae Robinson & Kloss, 1919 - Mt Lang Bian (C/southern Annam) in Vietnam.
robinsoni Ogilvie-Grant, 1906 - Extreme south-western Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia.
minor Cabanis, 1850 - Sumatra and Borneo.

References
See References.

Files:

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