NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF AFRICA, 



TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF LE VAILLANT. 



THE PIAPIAC (-Pica Senegalensis, BUISSON.) 



Piapiac, Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afrique, ii. p. 17, pi. 54. Corvus Senegalensis, Lath. Iml. 

 Orn. i. p. 163. Lin. i. 158. Gm. Lin. i. 374. Shaw's Zool. vii. 371 ; Pica Sene- 

 galensis, Briss. ii. 40, t. 3, f. 2 ; Id. 8vo. i. 166; Corvus Piapiac, Daud. ii. 239; 

 Pie du Senegal, Buf. iii. 97, PL Enl. 538; Senegal Crow, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. 

 394; Id. Sup. ii.. 114; Id. Gen. Hist iii. p. 39. 



I BESTOWED the name of Piapiac on the only species of Magpie which 

 I observed during my travels in Africa, and which I met with in the 

 remotest district of the country of the Great Namaquas. This bird 

 appears to me to be of the same species as that which Buffon lias 



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