394 



C R O W, 



2q, La Pie blanche, Br!/. orn> ii. p. 59* A. pi. 3. f. 1. 



Var A. 



TtTI TT r PT? ^ 



MAGPIE^ *"|"*HIS is a mere variety of the lafly differing only in colour^ 





being wholly of a pure white. 



BLUE 3 CROW. 

 Description. 



Place and 

 Mankmj. 



Corvus cyanus, Pallas irav. vol. i. p. 694. N" j. 



CIZE of the Rock Skrike, with which it agrees in the loofe tex- 

 ture of its feathers. The top of the head, as far as the nape.,, 

 is of a fhining glofiy deep black : body afh-colour, paleft be- 

 neath : wings and tail of a moft beautiful blue ; the laft very 

 long, the feathers fhortening by degrees, like thofe of a. Magpie, 

 and white at the tips. 



Inhabits Dauria, where it arrives in flocks in April; and has the 

 manners of the Magpie, building its neft after the fame manner. 

 It is a very timorous bird, and withall a crafty,, noify, clamorous; 

 fpecieSo 



AFRICAN 

 CROW. 



Corvus afer, Lin Syjl. i. p. 157. N° 12-. 

 » Senegalenfis, Lin. Syjt. i. p. 157. N° 14; 



La Pie du Senegal, Brif. orn. ii. p. 40. N° 2. pi. 3. f.'-Zi — Buf.oif. lis 

 p- 97. — Pl.< enl. 538-. 



Dsscrjptiok. T ENGTH fourteen inches: fize of our Magpie. Bill near an- 

 inch and a. half long,, and black: general colour of the 

 plumage violet black above,- and dufky black beneath: the quills 

 and tail feathers are brown, with violet black edges : the tail cu->- 

 £- neatedj, 



