Common Green Magpie (Cissa chinensis) [XC406905]
by Brian Cox from , India (call, camera shutter sounds in between)
Common Green Magpie (Cissa chinensis) [XC881378]
by GABRIEL LEITE from , India (call)
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 Yellow-breasted 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.