MAGPIE. 5L 
patch of white on the inner web of each of the first ten 
feathers; secondaries and tertiaries, fine blue.’ The tail is 
graduated, the outer feathers being only five inches long, and 
the middle ones nearly eleven inches; their colours are brightly 
iridescent, blue and purple shades near the end, and green 
from thence to the base; the inner webs of all except the 
centre pair are purple black; beneath it is dull black; tail 
coverts, black; legs, toes, and claws, black. 
The female is less in size than the male, being about one 
foot four inches in length, and the colours not so bright; the 
tail also is shorter. 
Occasional varieties are met with, and malformations of the 
bill, both crosswise at the tip, and in the way of elongation, 
have occurred in the Magpie. 
