CORVIDiE. 









THE MAGPIE. 

 Pica rustica (Scopoli). 



In East Anglia and other game-preserving districts of Great 

 Britain the Magpie is a rare bird, but it is plentiful in Wales and 

 the Marches, as well as m many of the ' hunting-counties,' and may 

 be described as irregularly distributed up to the north of the 

 mainland of Scotland, while it has occurred in the Orkneys. In 

 Ireland, where its appearance was first recorded in 1676 in co. 

 Wexford, it is now very common. 



The Magpie seldom visits Heligoland, but from the North 

 Cape in Scandinavia southward it occurs, more or less plentifully, 

 throughout Europe, except in the islands of Corsica and Sardinia. 

 It is not recorded from Palestine, although found in Asia Minor. 



