ISTTEOHrCTION. 



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them may be enumerated the Magpie (Pica pica), the beautiful 

 blue Magpie from the East (Urocissa eryihrorhyncha), the 

 Common Rook (Trypanocorax frugilegus), the Jackdaw, the 

 Chough {Qraculus graculus), and many more. '^^^'' ^""'^in" 



This Corvine 



Fig. 124. 



The Spotted Flycatcher (Mtiscicapa griseola). 



group of Birds is mainly an Old- World one, although it is 

 cosmopolitan in distribution, save that it is absent m New 

 Zealand. Two species of Crow are found in Australia. 



Certain Birds called Weaver-birds, whereof the Common 



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