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od. (Japan). Differs from C. cooki, in having the upper parts ashy 

 grey, with occasionally a faint tinge of brown, and the tail is broadly tipped 

 with white. The young bird is duller in colour, and has the feathers on 

 the head narrowly tipped with white. 



Hob. Eastern Siberia ; South-eastern Mongolia ; Northern 

 China, Corea, and Japan on the main island, but not on 

 Yezo. 



In habits it differs but little from C. cooki but is said to be 

 shyer, frequenting the forests, especially near rivers. Its food 

 consists of insects of various kinds, berries, fruit, and seed. Its 

 note is said to resemble the syllables bjjj, djjin, djjin, djjin and 

 it is a somewhat noisy bird. Its nest and eggs closely resemble 

 those of C. cooki, but the latter are generally darker. 



The Chinese Blue Magpie Urocissa sinensis (Linn.) is said to occur north 

 of Pekin, and even to stray to south-west Kan-su (Berez. and Bianchi 

 Ptitz. Gan-su, p. 122), but I do not include it as it is not strictly speaking 

 a Palsearctic bird. 



PICA, Briss., 1760. 



596. MAGPIE. 

 PICA RUSTICA. 



Pica rustica (Scopoli), Ann. i. Hist. Nat. p. 38 (1769) ; Newton, ii. 

 p. 312 ; Dresser, iv. p. 509, pi. 260, fig. 2 ; Gates, F. Brit. Incl. 

 Birds, i. p. 24 ; Saunders, p. 237 ; Corvus pica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 

 p. 157 (1766) ; Naum. ii. p. 101, Taf. 56, fig. 2 ; (Sharpe), Cat. B. 

 Br. Mus, iii. p. 62 ; P. hudsonica, Bp. Comp. List, p. 27 (1838) ; 

 P. caudata, Keys and Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. 45 (1840) ; Hewitson, 

 i. p. 234, pi. Ix. fig. 3 ; Gould, B. of E. iii. pi. 216 ; Lilford, ii. 

 p. 58, pi. 25 ; P. bottanensis, Deless. Rev. Zbol. ii. p. 100 ; P.japonica 

 et bactriana, Bp. Consp. i. p. 383 ; P. hucoptera ; Gould, B. of Asia, 

 v. pi. 55 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iii. p. 66. 



Pie ordinaire, French ; Pega, Portug. ; Marica, ZTrraca, Span. ; 

 Gaza, Cecca, Ital. ; Elster, Germ. ; Shade, Dan. ; Skjcere, Norw. ; 

 Skata, Swed. ; Harakka, Finn. ; Soroka, Russ. ; Acka, Pers. ;. 

 Hizen-karasu, Jap. 



<j ad. (England). Head, neck, back, breast, wings, and tail deep black, 

 glossed with bottle-green and violet-green ; rump dull white ; primaries 

 white on the basal inner web ; scapulars and abdomen white ; thighs, anal 

 region, and under tail-coverts black ; bill and legs black ; iris brown. 

 Culmen T4, wing 7 '4, tail 10*2, tarsus T85 inch. Sexes alike. 



Hdb. The whole of Europe from the Varanger Fjord to the 

 Mediterranean ; Asia from Kamchatka to the Himalayas ; 



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