CORVIDA. 237 
THE MAGPIE. 
Pica RUstTiIca (Scopoli). 
In East Anglia and other game-preserving districts of Great 
Britain the Magpie is a rare bird, but it is plentiful in Wales and 
the Marches, as well as in many of the ‘hunting-counties,’ and may 
be described as irregularly distributed up to the north of the 
mainland of Scotland, while it has occurred in the Orkneys. In 
Ireland, where its appearance was first recorded in 1676 in co. 
Wexford, it is now very common. 
The Magpie seldom visits Heligoland, but from the North 
Cape in Scandinavia southward it occurs, more or less plentifully, 
throughout Europe, except in the islands of Corsica and Sardinia. 
It is not recorded from Palestine, although found in Asia Minor. 
