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rarer towards the north ; unknown in Orkney. In Ireland it 

 occurs only in the southern counties at the present day. This 

 particular form of Garrulus seems to be peculiar to Europe. 



Genus PICA, Brisson, Orn. ii. p. 35 (1760). 



Pica = a Magpie, in classical Latin. Feminine of Picus, q. v. 



Pica rustica. MAGPIE. 



Corvus rusticus, Scopoli, Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 38 



(1769). 

 Corvus Pica, Linn&us, S. N. i. p. 157(1766). 



Corvus pica, Naum. ii. p. 101. 



Pica melanoleuca, Macg. i. p. 562. 



Pica caudata, Hewitson, p. 234 ; Gray, p. 85 ; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. 



p. 109 ; id. ed. 3, ii. p. 114 ; Gould, iii. pi. 63 ; Harting, 



p. 31. 



Pica rustica, Newton, ii. p. 312 ; Dresser, iv. p. 509. 

 Magpie, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 107. 



Rustica = of or belonging to the country, rus. 



Resident in every county of England ; commoner in Scot- 

 land, except in the more remote isles ; and abundant in 

 Ireland. Generally distributed throughout the Palsearctic 

 Region and Western and Northern North America. 



Genus CORVUS, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 155 (1766). 



Corvus = the Raven, in classical Latin. Akin to Kopa%, comix, corone, our 

 Raven, Rook, and to fcpww = I caw, KpaZu = I cry, and Engl. to " ring." 



Corvus monedula. JACKDAW. 



Corvus Monedula, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 156 (1766). 

 Corvus monedula, Naum. ii. p. 93 ; Macg. i. p. 552; Hewitson, 



p. 232 ; Gray, p. 87 ; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 103 ; id. ed. 3, ii. 



p. 108 ; Newton, ii. p. 305 ; Dresser, iv. p. 523 ; Gould, 



iii. pi. 61 ; Harting, p. 31. 

 Jackdaw, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 102. 



Monedula = a Daw, in classical Latin, Derived by Ovid, in his account of 

 the nymph Arne being mythically turned into a Daw for having betrayed her 



