Species profile
Javan Green Magpie
Cissa thalassina
Quick answer
Kitta thalassina Temminck, 1826 MZUT AV 17214; previously mounted; unsexed; Indonesia, Java, no date; donated by the Marquis of Breme, in 1847. Remarks. — Ferdinando Arborio Gattinara di Breme (1807 – 69), an Italian entomologist, ornithologist, painter and politician, donated his ornithological collection to King Vittorio Emanuele II. Initially housed in Venaria, at La Mandria, the collection was subsequently transferred to Moncalieri Castle; in 1901 King Vittorio Emanuele III donated the birds to Torino and Roma museums (Salvadori 1902, Maschietti et al. 1988, Marangoni & Gippoliti 2011).
- Scientific name
- Cissa thalassina
- Family
- Corvidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Cissa
- Conservation status
- Critically Endangered
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