Class II. 



MAGPIE. 



225 



La Pie. Bclon av. 29 1. 

 Pica varia et cauuata. Gefner 



av. 695. 

 Aldr. ahj. J. 392. 

 The Magpie, or Pianet. Wil, 



orn. 127. 

 Raiifyn. au. 41. 

 La Pie. BriJ/hn, II. 35. Hiji. 



d'Oys, III, 85. 

 Gazza, Piitta. Zinan. 66, 



Corvus Pica. Lin.fyjl. 157. 78. Magpie. 

 Skata, Skiura, Skara. Faun, 



Suec. fp. 92. 

 Danijh Skade, Huus Skade. 



Nor^. Skior, Tunfugl. 



Brtinnichf 3 2 . 

 Aelfler. Frifcb, I. 58. 

 Alfter. Kram, 335. 

 Br. Zool. 77. plate D. 2. 

 Praka. Scopoli, No. 38. 



THE great beauty of this very common bird 

 was fo little attended to, that the editors of 

 the Britijh Zoology thought fit to publifh a print 

 of it after a painting by the celebrated Barlow. 

 The marks of this fpecies are fo well known, that 

 it would be impertinent to detain the reader with 

 the particulars. 



We ihall only obferve the colors of this bird: 

 its black, its white, its green, and purple, and the 

 rich and gilded combination of glofles on the tail, 

 are at left equal to thofe that adorn the plumage of 

 any other. It bears a great refemblance to the 

 butcher-bird in its bill, which has a fharp procefs 

 near the end of the upper mandible; in the fhort- 

 nefs of its wings, and the form of the tail, each 

 feather fhortening from the two middlemoft : 

 it agrees alfo in its food ; which are worms, in- 

 feftsj and fmall birds. It will deftroy young chick- 

 ens ; 



