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 PASSERES. 



COllVIDvE. 



GORY IBM. 







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Pica rustica (Scopoli*). 



THE PIE. 



Pica cauda ta r. 



Pica, Brisson+. Beak hard, stout and compressed, straight at the li.ase, 

 arched towards the point, sharp at the edges, and slightly notched near the 

 tip of the upper mandible. Nostrils basal, hidden by stiff feathers, directed 

 forwards. Wings short and rounded : tirst primary attenuated for two-thirds 



■ Corvus ru8ticu8, Scopoli, Annual, Historico-Naturalis, p. 38(1769). 



I Fleming, Hist. Brit. Animals, p. 87(1828). J Ornithologie, ii. p. :;. r . (1760). 



