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PICA EUSTICA. 



(MAGPIE.) 



Corvus pica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 157 (1766). 



Corvus rusticus, Scop. Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 38 (1769). 



Pica melanoleuca, Vieill. N. Diet. xxvi. p. 121 (1818). 



Pica europcea, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 551. 



Corvus hudsonius, J. Sabine, App. Narr. Frankl. Journ. p. 671, "Hudson's Bay" (1823). 



Pica albwentris, Vieill. Faun. Fr. p. 119 (1828). 



Pica germanica, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 177 (1831). 



Pica septentrionalis, C. L. Brehm, torn. cit. p. 178 (1831). 



Pica hiemalis, C. L. Brehm, ut supra (1831). 



Garrulus pica, Temm. Man. d'Orn. iii. p. 63 (1835). 



Pica caudata, Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. 45 (1840). 



Pica bottanensis, A. Delessert, Rev. Zool. ii. p. 100, "Bhootan" (1840). 



Pica megaloptera, Blyth, J. As. Soc. Beng. xi. p. 193, "Bhootan" (1842). 



Pica media, Blyth, J. As. Soc. Beng. xiii. p. 393, "Andes" (1844). 



Pica varia, Schleg. Bev. Crit. Ois. p. 54 (1844). 



Pica sericea, Gould, P. Z. S. 1845, p. 2, " Amoy." 



Cleptes hudsonicus, Gambel, J. A. N. Sc. 2nd ser., 1st Dec. 1847, p. 47, "New Mexico to 



California." 

 Pica tibetana, Hodgs. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. iii. p. 203, "Thibet" (1849). 

 Pica varia japonica, Temm. & Schleg. Fauna Japonica, p. 18, "Japan" (1850). 

 Pica hudsonica, Bonap. Conspectus Gen. Av. p. 383, " N. America" (1850). 

 Pica japonica, Bonap. torn. cit. p. 383, "Japan" (1850). 

 Pica chinensis, Schleg., id. ut supra, " China" (1850). 

 Pica bactriana, Bonap. ut supra, "Afghanistan" (1850). 

 Pica butanensis, Delessert, id. ut supra (1850). 

 Cleptes pica, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 229 (1851). 

 Pica vulgaris auctt., Brehm, Cab. Journ. 1858, p. 173, "Europe." 



Pie ordinaire, French; Elster, Heister, Schalaster, German; Marica, JJrraca, Spanish 

 Pega, Portuguese; Carcarazza, Sicilian; Ciaula baida, Maltese; Gazza, Cecca, Italian 

 Ekster, Dutch; Almindelig Shade, Danish; Skjmre, Norwegian; SJcata, Swedish 

 Harakka, Finnish ; SroJca, Polish ; Soroka, Russian. 



Figures notabiles. 

 DAubenton, PI. Enl. pi. 488 ; Werner, Atlas, Omnivores, pi. 7 ; Rjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. xii. ; 

 Fritsch, Vog. Eur. pi. 27. fig. 6; Sundevall, Sv. Fogl. pi. xix. fig. 3; Naumann, Vog. 



