JAVAN GREEN MAGPIE Cissa thalassina CR

Kitta thalassina Temminck, 1826

MZUT AV17214; 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).