. A dictionary of birds . n (Zoologist, , pp. 706, 1016).^ More or less allied to the genus Fica are some forms that can hardly be separated fromJays, as for instance thespecies of Cissa, before men-tioned (page 470), concerningthe affinity of which opinionshave differed much, but Mr.„ /.~ c, ■ V Gates (Fatina Br. Ind. Birds, Cissa. (After Swamson.) . \ i t • p 1. ]). 28), declares m favourof its Pie-like position. Gn the other hand Dendrocitta with severalkindred genera, all belonging to the Indian Region, are with lessdoubt referred to the neighbourhood of Fica, as also is Ci/anopica,^
. A dictionary of birds . n (Zoologist, , pp. 706, 1016).^ More or less allied to the genus Fica are some forms that can hardly be separated fromJays, as for instance thespecies of Cissa, before men-tioned (page 470), concerningthe affinity of which opinionshave differed much, but Mr.„ /.~ c, ■ V Gates (Fatina Br. Ind. Birds, Cissa. (After Swamson.) . \ i t • p 1. ]). 28), declares m favourof its Pie-like position. Gn the other hand Dendrocitta with severalkindred genera, all belonging to the Indian Region, are with lessdoubt referred to the neighbourhood of Fica, as also is Ci/anopica,^ 1 Dr. Diedericli {Ornis, 1889, pp. 280-332, tab. iv.) lias treated at length andillustrated by a map the geographical distribution of the genus Fica. Dr. Sharpe {Cat. B. Br. Mas. iii. p. 67), calls this genus CyanopoUus, citingas his authority a passage Avherein that name does not occur. Bonaparte seemsto have used it only in manuscript (see his Consp. Av. i. p. 282 ; and Waterhouse,Index Generum Avmm, p. 59, note).. PIGEON 723 so remarkable for its discontinuous distribution, already noticed(p. 342)—one of its two species, G. coolci, being the Blue Pie of theIberian Peninsula, and the other, C. cyana, that of Eastern Asiawith Japan. PIGEON, French Pigeon, Italian Piccione and Pijnone, LatinPipio, literally a nestling-bird that pipes or cries out, a Piper —the very name now in use among Pigeon-fanciers. The wordPigeon, doubtless of Norman introduction as a polite term, seemsto bear much the same relation to Dove, the word of Anglo-Saxonorigin, that mutton has to sheep, beef to ox, veal to calf, and porkto bacon ; but, as before stated (p. 162), no sharp distinction canbe drawn between the two, and the collective members of the groupColumhx are by ornitliologists ordinarily calledPigeons. Perhaps the best known sjoecies towhich the latter name is exclusively given incommon speech ^ is the Wild or Passenger-PiGEON of North America, Ectopistes, alreadymentioned; but amon
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