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C R Vf. 



and fides } this is bounded by a crefcent of blacky which en- 

 circles the neck behind : there are alfo two bands of the fame 

 colour, which paffing beneath the eyes, terminate at the corners 

 of the mouth : the tail tipped with blue green : the wings, as in 

 variety A : the breaft white and yellow ; and under the body 

 yellow brown. 



38. Corvus caryocata&es, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 157. N° 10. — Scop. ann. i. p. 37. 



NUT- N° 4 o.— Mullet, p. 12. 



LeCaflenoix, Brif. orn. ii. p. 59. N° I. pi. 5. f. 1 ,—Buf. oif. iii. p. lZ2 t 



pi. 9.— PL enl. 50. 

 Tannen-Heher, &c. Frifch. t. 56. 

 Waldftarl, Steinheher, Kram. el. p. 334. 

 Caryocata&es, Rati Syn. p. 42. — Will. orn. p. 132. 'pi. 20. 

 Nutcracker, JSVw. pi. 240.*— Br. Zool. ii. app. p. 625. pi. 3. — Am. Zool. 

 N° 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



-Description. CIZE of a Magpie: length thirteen inches. The bill nearly 

 flrait, about two inches in length, and black: irides hazel: 

 the feathers which fall over the noftrils bordered with brown ; 

 upper part of the head, and nape of the neck, black : the general 

 colour of the plumage rufty brown, marked with triangular white 

 fpots, which are largefl on the under parts : the vent white : 

 quills and tail black ; the laft tipped with white : legs black. 

 P;La«es. We find thefe birds fcattered in many parts of Europe, but no 



where fo plenty as in Germany ; they are found alfo in Sweden and 

 Dtntnark, where they frequent the mountainous parts ; fometimes 

 come in vaft flocks into France, efpecially Burgundy -, vifit Eng~ 

 land very feldom, not more than twice that I have heard of j once 



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