INTRODUCTION, iit 
them may be enumerated the Magpie (Pica pica), the beautiful 
blue Magpie from the East (Urocissa erythrorhyncha), the 
Common Rook (Zrypanocorax frugilegus), the Jackdaw, the 
Chough (Graculus graculus), and many more. This Coryine 

The Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa griseola). 
group of Birds is mainly an Old-World one, although it is 
cosmopolitan in distribution, save that it is absent in New 
Zealand. Two species of Crow are found in Australia. 
Certain Birds called Weaver-birds, whereof the Common 
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