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Sri Lanka blue magpie (Urocissa ornata)
Subject: Sri Lanka blue magpie (Urocissa ornata)
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Cissa ornata - 1872 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ15700059.jpg
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Sri Lanka blue magpie (Urocissa ornata)


Cissa ornata
Date 1872
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Schlegel, De dierentuin van het Koninklijk Zoölogisch Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra te Amsterdam, p. 166
Old Latin name Cissa ornata
New Latin name Urocissa ornata
Common name Nederlands: Blauwe kitta
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cissa_ornata_-_1872_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ15700059.tif

The Sri Lanka blue magpie or Ceylon magpie (Urocissa ornata) is a brightly coloured member of the Corvidae family and found exclusively in Sri Lanka. Urocissa ornata is adapted to hunting in the dense canopy, where it is highly active and nimble.

Order: Passeriformes
Family: Corvidae
Genus: Urocissa
Species: Urocissa ornata (Wagler, 1829)
Synonym: Pica ornata Wagler, 1829

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