AZUIlE-WmClED MAGPIE. 



Omnivorte. 



CORVIDjE. 



Genus — Pica. ( Brisson.) 



Sub-genus — Cyanopica. (Bonaparte.) 



Generic Characters. — Beak middle-sized and strong, compressed laterally, 

 slightly arched, hooked at the tip, and garnished at its base with short stiff 

 feathers; nostrils oblong; middle and external toe united at their origin. 

 Wings . short and rounded; first quill feather very short; fourth or fifth 

 longrest. Tail lone: and graduated. 



AZUEE-WINGED MAGPIE. 



Cyanopica CooJd. 



Cyanopica Cooki, 

 Pica Cyanea, 



" Europcca, 

 Corvus Cyamis, 



Garrulus Cvaniis, 

 Pica Cyana, 



Pie turdoides, 

 Blaue Elster, 

 Blue Crow, 



Bonaparte. Gould. 



Wagler; Syst. Av. (1827.) 



Bonaparte. Schinz. Schlegel. 



Bree; I St. ed. Blasius, var. B. 



Schlegel. 



Pallas; App. to Voyage. (1776.) 



Latham. Gmelin. 



Temminck. 



Keyserling et Blasius. 



Degland. 



Of the French. 



Of the Germans. 



Latham. 



Specific Characters. — Head deep black; wings and tail blue; apex of quill 

 feathers white. Length of adult male and female twelve to fourteen inches. 



This bird, the most beaiitiful member of its family, is an inhabitant 

 of Spain, and, according to the celebrated traveller Pallas, of Eastern 

 Asia. 



