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The closest relatives of the choughs were formerly thought to be the typical crows, Corvus, especially the jackdaws in the subgenus Coloeus, but DNA and cytochrome b analysis shows that the genus Pyrrhocorax, along with the Ratchet-tailed Treepie ( genus Temnurus ), diverged early from the rest of the Corvidae.
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The closest relatives of the choughs are the typical crows, Corvus, especially the jackdaws in the subgenus Coloeus.
Although Corvus is the crow genus to which the choughs ' closest relatives belong, they were considered sufficiently distinctive to be moved to the new genus, Pyrrhocorax, by English ornithologist Marmaduke Tunstall in his 1771 Ornithologia Britannica, The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek πύρρος ( purrhos ), " flame-coloured ", and κόραξ ( korax ), " raven ".
The closest relatives of the choughs are the typical crows, Corvus, especially the jackdaws in the subgenus Coloeus, but the Pyrrhocorax species differ from Corvus in that they have brightly coloured bills and feet, smooth, not scaled tarsi and very short, dense nasal feathers.
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