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our Grey Magpie. The word magpie applied here is not to 

 be confused with the proper magpie (Gymnorhina), a 

 thoroughly useful bird. My reason for drawing attention 

 to this fact may be rightly guessed, because most growers 



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Fig. 



Pied Crow-Shrike. One-fifth natural size. 



consider the present bird very little less than a thief. 

 Certainly the bird is sly, and enters a garden with 

 at least one eye well open to see it gets there, and the 

 other about the same to see it gets safely out before 



