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Genus PICA. 

 Brissou, Orn. ii. p. 35 (1760). 



Pica pica. 



Corvus pica, Linnecus, S. N. i. p. 157 (1700). 



Pica caudata, Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. 45 (1840) ; Eyton, 



Osteol. Av. p. 147. 

 Pica rusiica (Scop.), Dresser, B. Eur. vol. iv. p. 509, pi. 200 (1873). 

 Pica pica (L.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 62 (1877) *. 



The Common Magpie. 



Hab. The whole of Eurofje and Xorthern Asia and North 

 America. 



50. Natural skeleton : mounted. 0. C. 1554 c a. 



From the Zoological Gardens, 1885. 



51. Skull. 0. C. 1554 C. Received in e.vchange. 



52. Sternum (with furcula, right coracoid, and scapula). 



S. S. 832. Purchased. 



Genus DENDROCITTA. 



Gould, P. Z. :S. 1833, p. 565. 



Dendrocitta rufa. 



Lanitis ntfus, Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. ii. p. (1786). 

 Dendrocitta rufa (Scop.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 76 

 (1877) ; Gates, Eaun. Br. Ind., Birds, i. p. 31 (1889). 



The Indian Tree-Pie. 



Ilah. Indian Peninsula and Burma. 



53. Sternum of female, ^vith shoulder-girdle. S. S. 1934. 



From the Zoological Society. 



* The skeleton of the American Magpie {Pica hudsonica) is described by 

 Dr. Shufcldt (.Journ. Anat. Thv.*. xxii pp. ?jO^~?,r>0, p]. xv. figs. 6, 8, 9, 

 lU) 



