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PICA MELANOLEUCA. THE COMMON MAGPIE. 



PYET. PIANET. MADGE. MAG. PIOGHAID. 



Fio. 88. 



Corvus Pica. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 157. 



Corvus Pica. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 162. 



Magpie. Mont, Om. Diet. 



Pie. Corvus Pica. Temm. Man. d'Orn. L 113. 



Pie. Garrulus Picus. Temm. Man. d'Orn. III. 63. 



Magpie. Pica melanoleuca. Selb. lUustr. I. 358. 



Corvus Pica. Magpie. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 147. 



Plumage of the head^ neck^ hacJc^ anterior part of breast^ and 

 abdomen^ black ; of the rest of the breast^ and the outer scapulars^ 

 white ; tail tery long^ splendent with green and purple^ as are 

 the wings, the greater part of the inner web of the outer quills of 

 which is white. 



Male. — The Magpie is among the most beautiful of our 

 native birds, both with respect to the elegance of its form and 

 the splendour of its plumage, although when seen at a distance 

 one might imagine it to be merely black and white. The 

 Crow to which it approaches nearest in form is the Jackdaw, 

 which it greatly resembles in the form of the bill, the head, 

 the neck, and the feet ; but its wings are propoi-tionally 



