 The red @-@ billed chough was first described by Linnaeus in his Systema Naturae in 1758 as Upupa pyrrhocorax . It was moved to its current genus , Pyrrhocorax , by Marmaduke Tunstall in his 1771 Ornithologia Britannica . The genus name is derived from Greek <unk> ( <unk> ) , " flame @-@ coloured " , and κόραξ ( korax ) , " raven " . The only other member of the genus is the Alpine chough , Pyrrhocorax graculus . The closest relatives of the choughs are the typical crows , Corvus , especially the jackdaws in the subgenus Coloeus . 
