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neated, fhorter than in our Magpie, the outer feather only four 

 inches in length : legs black. 

 Inhabits SmegciL 



Place, 



Le Rollier des Antilles, Brif. orn. ii. p. 8. N* 6. 

 La Pie des Antilles, Buf. oif. iii. p. ioi. 129. 

 Pica Perfica Aldrov. Rati Syn. p. 4, N° 6 ? 

 — -. Antillarum, p. 15a. 



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CARIBBEAN 



CROW. 



CIZE of a Magpie. The bill is red : the head and neck blue; 

 the laft furrounded with a white collar : from the top of the 

 head, beginning at the bafe of the bill, and patting behind the 

 neck quite to the back, is a white mark, one inch in breadth, and 

 three in length, tranfverfely barred with black : the back and fca- 

 pulars are ferruginous: rump and upper tail coverts yellow: un- 

 der parts of the body white : the lerTer coverts of the wings 

 cheftnut; the middle ones green, with deeper edges", the greater 

 coverts blue, with whitifh edges and lhafts : quills blue green ; 

 the tail is long and cuneated ; the two middle feathers longer 

 than thofe of the outfide by eight or ten inches ; the colour 

 blue, ftriated with white : the legs are red. 



The female differs, in wanting the tranfverfe ftripes on the 

 white mark at the back part of the head ; and having the wing 

 coverts green, where they are blue in 'the male. 



It is faid to inhabit the Antilles, and to be common about the 

 rivers of Guadakupe. This is defcribed from du Tertre *. That 

 of Aldrov 'andus, which he defcribes from a painting, had a whitifh 



Description. 



• Hift, ties Antilles, ii. p. 25S. fig. in p. 246. N° 6. 



Female. 



Place. 



bill, 



