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chefhut brown: the nine firft quills are half white half black; the 
reft wholly black: tail black, with the tip white. 
Inhabits Pev/ia, and has obtained its name from imitating words and 
actions of thofe around, fuch as crying, laughing, and fuch like. 
Coracias ftrepera, Ind. Orn. 1. p. 173. 21- 
Reveilleur de L?Ifle Norfolk, Daud. Orz.1i. p. 267. 
Corvus graculinus, White-vented Crow, White's Journ. Bat. Bay, tab. p. 251. 
E NGTH nineteen inches; fize fomewhat bigger than a 7ack- 
daw: bill two inches and three quarters long, curved at the 
point, with a flight notch at the very tip; colour black; noftrils 
elongated, oval: the irides are orange: the general colour of the 
plumage is black; the feathers about the head fhort and tiff: the 
firft quill feather is half the length of the fifth, which is the longeft of 
all; the firft fix quills are white at the bafe, producine when clofed 
a white patch on the wing : vent, and bafe of all the tail feathers white: 
the tail is eight inches long, even at the end, and the feathers pointed 
at the tips, marked on the inner web with white, except the two 
middle ones, which are wholly black ®: the wing when clofed 
reaches more than half way on the tail: the legs ate ftrong, feathered 
rather below the heel; hind toe very large and ftrone. 
This fpecies is very numerous at Norfolk Yland, and is very cla- 
morous, efpecially of nights ; called a Magpie by our failors, perhaps 
ton account of the colours, added to the fimilarity of voice. Itis a 
very foolifh bird, running after any perfon, and fuffering itfelf to be 
knotked down with a ftick. 
‘® In the engraved coloured plate of this bird, in White's Fourzal, all the tail fea- 
thers have white ends, whereas the two middle ones are black the whole of their 
Jength. 
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