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ZOOLOGY. 



478), the crow, and blackbird, so useful a bird, notwitb- 

 standing its mischievous propensities ; the oriole, whose 



Fig. 478.— Magpie. — From Teuney's Zoology. 



Fig. 479. — Butciier-bird, — ^From Tenney's Zoology, 



hanging nest, brilliant colors, and lively song render it one 

 of our most interesting birds ; while the reed-bird of the 



