562 BRITISH BIRDS. 



PICA CAUDATA. 



MAGPIE. 

 (PLATE 16.) 



Pica pica, Brisa. Orn. ii. p. 35 (1760). 



Corvus pica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 157 (1766;. 



Pica varia, Gerini, Orn. Meth. Dig. ii. p. 40 (1769). 



Picacaudata, Gerini, Orn. Meth. Dig. ii. p. 40(1769); Keys. $ Bias. Wirb. Eur. 

 p. 45 (1840); et auctorum plurimorum Gould, Yarrell, Giglioli, Gray, 

 Blyth, Bonaparte, Middendorff, Fritsch, Linderrnayer, Filippi, Doderlein, Tristram, 

 Lilford, Schrenck, Radde, Salvadori, Shelley, Baird, Severtzow, Hartlaub, Alston, 

 Harvie-Brown, Cavendish Taylor. 



Corvus rusticus, Scop. Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 38 (1769). 



Pica rusticorum, Forst. Syn. Cat. Br. B. p. 48 (1817). 



Pica melanoleuca, Vieill N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 121 (1818). 



Pica europsea, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 551. 



Corvus hudsonius, Sdbine, App. Narr. Frank!. Journ. p. 671 (1823). 



Pica albiventris, Vieill Faun. Franc, p. 119 (1828). 



Garrulus picus (Linn.), Temm. Man. d'Orn. iii. p. 63 (1835). 



Pica hudsonica (Sabine), Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. 8f N. Amer. p. 27 (1838). 



Pica bottanensis, Deless. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 100. 



Pica niegaloptera, Blyth, Journ. As, Soc. Beng. xi. p. 193 (1842). 



Pica media, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xiii. p. 393 (1844). 



Pica sericea, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845, p. 2. 



Cleptes hudsonicus (Sabine), Gambel, Journ. Acad. N. Set. Phil. i. p. 46 (1847). 



Pica tibetana, Hodgs. Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. 1849, p. 203. 



Pica varia japonica, Temm. et Schl. Faun. Japon., Aves, p. 81 (1849). 



Pica japonica (Schl.),Jide Bonap. Consp. i. p. 383 (1850). 



Pica chinensis (Schl.)jfide Bonap. Consp. i. p. 383 (1850). 



Cleptes pica (Linn.), Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 229 (1851). 



Pica leucoptera, Gould, B. Asia, pt. xiv. (1862). 



Pica rustica (Scop.), Dresser, B. Eur. iv. p. 509 (1873). 



Pica melauoleuca (Vieill.), var. hudsonica (Sabine), Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 164 

 (1872). 



Pica caudata (Gerini), var. bactriana (Bonap.), Severtz. Ttirkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873). 



Pica caudata (Gerini), var. hudsonica (Sabine), Baird, Brewer, fy Itidgiv. N. Amer. 

 B. ii. p. 266 (1874). 



Few birds are better known than the graceful, wary Magpie, although 

 those seen in confinement give but a small idea of its elegant form and 

 the almost matchless beauty of its plumage. The bird must be seen in its 

 native haunts, flitting buoyantly and slowly over a breezy waste or the 

 tops of the trees, or, perhaps better still, when searching the pastures for 

 its food ; then the rich variety of its dress lends a charm to the surround- 

 ings, and its chattering cry imbues them with life. The Magpie has the 

 misfortune to be included in the list of those birds that are proscribed 

 by the game-preserver and the poul try -keeper ; hence its numbers are 



