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the bird, which, at firft view, bears a ftriking refemblance to a diminutive 

 fpecimen of the Corvus Pica of Linnsus, or common magpie. 



Mr. Latham has obferved that it cannot with propriety be referred to the 

 c-enus Corvus, fince it is deftitute of the capiftrum reverfum, or feries of 

 bridles in front, which charafterize that genus. He alfo adds, that though the 

 ftoutnefs of the beak might ahnoft admit of its being placed in the genus 

 Loxia, yet it feems to have more conformity with that of Lanius. Its fize 

 ib that of a fmall thrufli, and its length about ten inches. 



DA. 



