562 BRITISH BIRDS. 
PICA CAUDATA. 
MAGPIE. 
(Pxate 16.) 
Pica pica, Briss. Orn. 11. p. 35 (1760). 
Corvus pica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 157 (1766). 
Pica varia, Gerini, Orn. Meth, Dig. ii. p. 40 (1769). 
Pica caudata, Gerint, Orn. Meth. Dig. ii. p. 40 (1769); Keys. § Blas. Wirb. Eur. 
p. 45 (1840); et auctorum plurimorum—Gould, Yarrell, Giglioli, Gray, 
Blyth, Bonaparte, Middendorff, Fritsch, Lindermayer, Filippi, Doderlein, Tristram, 
Lilford, Schrenck, Radde, Salvadori, Shelley, Baird, Severtzow, Hartlaub, Alston, 
Harvie-Brown, Cavendish Taylor. 
Corvus rusticus, Scop. Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 38 (1769). 
Pica rusticorum, Forst. Syn. Cat. Br. B. p, 48 (1817). 
Pica melanoleuca, Veil. N. Dict. d’ Hist, Nat. xxvi. p. 121 (1818). 
Pica europea, Bore, Isis, 1822, p. 551. 
Corvus hudsonius, Sabine, App. Narr. Frankl. Journ. p. 671 (1823). 
Pica albiventris, Vieill. Fam. Frang. p. 119 (1828). 
Garrulus picus (Linn.), Temm. Man. d’ Orn. iii. p. 63 (1835), 
Pica hudsonica (Sabine), Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. §& N. Amer. p. 27 as 
Pica bottanensis, Deless, Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 100. 
Pica megaloptera, Blyth, Journ, As, Soc. Beng. xi, p. 193 (1842). 
Pica media, Blyth, Journ, As. Soc. Beng. xiii. p, 395 (1844). 
Pica sericea, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845, p. 2. 
Cleptes hudsonicus (Sabine), Gambel, Journ. Acad. N. Set. Phil. i. p. 46 (1847). 
Pica tibetana, Hodgs. Ann. Nat, Hist. iii. 1849, p. 203. 
Pica varia japonica, Temm. et Schl, Faun. Japon., Aves, p, 81 (1849). 
Pica japonica (Schi.), fide Bonap. Consp. i. p. 383 (1850). 
Pica chinensis (Schl.), fide Bonap. Consp. i. Bi 583 (1850), 
Cleptes pica (Linn.), Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 229 (1851). | 
Pica leucoptera, Gould, B. Asia, pt. xiv. (1862). 
Pica rustica (Scop.), Dresser, B. Ewr. iv. p. 509 (1878), 
Pica melanoleuca (Vieill.), var. hudsonica (Sabine), Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 164 
(1872). 
Pica caudata (Gerinz), var. bactriana (Bonap.), Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873). 
Pica caudata (Gerint), var. hudsonica (Sabine), Baird, Brewer, § Ridgw. N. Amer. 
B. ii. p. 266 (1874). 
Few birds are better known than the graceful, wary Magpie, although 
those seen in confinement give but a small idea of its elegant form and 
the almost matchless beauty of its plumage. The bird must be seen in its 
native haunts, flitting’ buoyantly and slowly over a breezy waste or the 
tops of the trees, or, perhaps better still, when searching the pastures for | 
its food ; then the rich variety of its dress lends a charm to the surround- 
ings, and its chattermg cry imbues them with life. The Magpie has the 
misfortune to be included in the list of those birds that are proscribed 
by the game-preserver and the poultry-keeper; hence its numbers are 
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