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journalists have chattered like pied (or rather paid) Magpies ! I sub- 

 join here the phrases of its three species, that of Vaillant, Pallas, and 

 Capt. Cook, now Widdrington (so closely allied as to be taken for 

 three races of but one species), to show they are really distinct, 

 although the characters hitherto assigned to them by the most clever 

 and accurate naturaUsts may have proved inconstant and fallacious. 



1. Cyanopica melanocephala, Bp. Capite subcristato, ex 

 toto cum ffuld niyro : dorso ccerulescenti : rectricibus omnibus 

 albo terminatis. 



Synonyms. 

 Corvus cyaneus. Lath., Vieill. 

 Pica melanocephalos, Wagl. 



Cyanopica Vaillanti, Bp. in litt.; Levaillant, Ois. Afr. t. 58, 

 Hab. in China. 



2. Cyanopica cyanea, Bp. Capite leevi, supra tantum nigro- 

 chalybceo : dorso citiereo-vinaceo, nucha vix canescente : rectri- 

 cibus lateralibus apice tantum albis, mediis valde elongatis late 

 albo terminatis. 



Synonyms. 

 Corvus cyaneus. Pall. 

 Pica cyanea, Wagl., Schleg. 



Cyanopica Pallasi, Bp. in litt. ; Faun. Japon. t. 42. 

 Hab. in Asia orientali, Daouria, Japan. 



3. Cyanopica cooki, Bp. Capite Icevi, supra tantum nigro- 

 chalybceo : dorso cano-rubello, nucha albicante : rectricibus 

 lateralibus late albo terminatis, mediis modice elongatis vix 

 apice albis. 



Synonyms. 



Pica cyanea, Cook. 



Pie bleue d' Europe, Schleg el (Cyanopica europsea). 



Cyanopolius Cooki, Bp. Brit. Assoc. Birmingh. 1849 ; Gould, Eur. 

 i. 217 ; Susemihl, Eur. Vog. 



Hab. in Eur. mer. Hispania. 



"We are thus arrived to the genus Pica, Br., or true Magpie {the 

 pied long-tailed), which, as we observed from the beginning, must 

 close the Garruline series, which it connects with the Corvidce, show- 

 ing as much affinity to those larger Crows as the first of the Jays do 

 to the smaller Shrikes or Laniidce. Of such Magpies we know eight 

 species perfectly typical and quite close to each other, whilst two 

 birds still allowed to remain in it are abnormal, each deserving of a 

 genus by itself: to both these birds, however different in fonn and 

 colour, the name oi Corvus caledonicus has been applied, one of which 

 is the slender-billed, more jay-hke Pica albicollis, Vieill., Garrula 

 torquata of the ' PI. Col.' of Temminck, to which the generic name of 

 Streptocitta might be apphed ; whilst I propose that the name of 

 Gazbla (so congenial in this our family), applied to the legitimate 

 Corvus caledonicus, should honour the person and perpetuate the 

 martyrdom of a highly refined and scientific ecclesiastical friend of 

 humanity, the lost victim of clerical machinations ! 



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