CR O W. 
but in refpect to the tail feathers, they are faultily expreffed in the 
Pl. Enluminées, for inftead of being as there reprefented, of a mode- 
rate length, and fcarcely more than rounded in fhape at the end, 
the faét is, that the tail is full half as long again as the whole of the 
reft of the bird; this we can teftify from a fine fpecimen in the 
Leverian Mujfeum, ia which the tail is fully as cuneiform in its fhape 
as in the Magpie; each of the feathers being blue, with the ends black, 
and ultimately marked with an oval fpot of white at the tip. Mr. 
Levaillant alfo has remarked the fame circumftance, 
Corvus Pica. Ind. Orz.i. p. 162. 32. 
Pie commune, Daud. Ora. ii. p. 237.—Hi?. Prov. i. p. 487.—Hif. Alepp. p. 69. 
Magpie, Gen. Syn. i. p. 392. 29.—Id. Sup. p. 80. 
T has been obferved, that no greater numbers of this bird are 
. feen than in the temperate and fouthern latitudes of Rufia; it is 
common all over Sibiria, and even in Kamtfchatka ; it was met with 
alfo in the adjacent iflands by Steller. 
In Clayton's account of Virginia, it is obferved that neither Fackdaw 
nor Magpie are there, and that they prize a Magpie full as much 
as we do the Red Bird. Many varieties of this bird have been 
noticed, and others continually fall under obfervation; I obferved at 
the late Mr. Charles Boddam’s, of Bull’s Cro/s, one of a dun colour, with 
white wing coverts: breaft and belly white ; this was eleven years old. 
One fhot at lord Temple’s at Stow, now in the Leverian Mufeum, 
is almoft white, longitudinally ftreaked with black: tail white, 
ftreaked with black at the ends; added to thefe, a magpie’s neft was 
found fome years fince in Somerfet/bire, in which were four young, 
three of them had the bills white ; the reft of the body, tail, and degs 
cream colour: the fourth of the natural colour. 
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