562 BRITISH BIRDS. 



PICA CAUDATA. 



MAGPIE. 



(Plate 16.) 



Pica pica, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 35 (1760). 



Oorvus pica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 157 (l"06j. 



Pica varia, Oerini, Orn. Meth. Dig. ii. p. 40 (17(59). 



Pica caudata, Gerini, Orn. Meth. Li;/, ii. p. 40(1769); Keys. <§• Bias. Wirb. Eur. 

 p. 45 (1840); et auctorum plurimorum — Oould, Yarrell, Oiglioli, Gray, 

 Blyth, Bonaparte, Middendorff, Frit.ich, Lindermayer, FiUppi,Doderlein, Tristram, 

 Lilford, Schrench, Radde, Salvadori, Shelley, Baird, Severtxoiv, Hartlauh, Alston, 

 Haruie-Broivn, Cavendish Taylor. 



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



Pica rusticorum, Forst. Syn. Cat. Br. B. p. 48 (1817). 



Pica melauoleuca, Vieill. N. Diet, d'Hist. Nat. xxyi. p. 121 (1818). 



Pica europfea, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 651. 



Oorvus hudsonius, Sabine, App. Narr. Frunld. Journ. p. (571 (1823). 



Pica albiventris, Tieill. Faun. Frang. p. 119 (1828). 



Garrulus picus {Linn.), Temni. Man. d'Orn. iii. p. 63 (1835). 



Pica hudsonica (Sabine), Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. Sf N. Amer. p. 27 (1838). 



Pica bottanensis, Deless. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 100. 



Pica megaloptera, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xi. p. 193 (1842). 



Pica media, Blyth, Jour^i. As. Soc. Beng. xiii. p. 393 (1844). 



Pica sericea, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845, p. 2. 



Oleptes hudsonicus (Sabine), Oanibel, Journ. Acad. N Sci. Phil. i. p. 46 (1847). 



Pica tibetaua, Hodgs. Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. 1849, p. 203. 



Pica varia japonica, Temm. et Schl. Faun. Japon., Aves, p. 81 (1849). 



Pica japonica {Schl.),Jide Bonap. Consp. i. p. Osi-O (1850). 



Pica cbinensis (Schl.), fide Bonap. Consj). i. p. -"83 (1850). 



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



Pica leucoptera, Gould, B. Asia, pi. xiv. (1862). 



Pica rustica (Scop.), Dresser, B. Eur. iv. p. 509 (1873). 



Pica melauoleuca ( Vieill. ), var. liudsonica (Sabine), Coues, Key N. Amei: B. p. 164 

 (1872). 



Pica caudata (Gerini), var. bactriana (Bonap.), Seuertz. Turkest. Jemtn. p. 64 (1873). 



Pica caudata (Gerini), var. hudsonica (Sabine), Baird, Brewer, Sf Ridgw. N. Ainer. 

 B. ii. p. 2G0 (1874). 



Pew birds are better knovm than the graceful, wary Magpie, although 

 those seen in confinement give but a small idea of its elegant form and 

 the almost matchless beauty ofits plumage. The bird must be seen in its 

 native haunts, flitting buoyantly and slowly over a breezy waste or the 

 tops of the trees, or, perhaps better still, when searching the pastures for 

 its food ; then the rich variety of its dress lends a charm to the sm-round- 

 ings, and its chattering cry imbues them with life. The Magpie has the 

 misfortune to be included in the list of those birds that are proscribed 

 by the game-preserver and the poultry -keeper ; hence its numbers are 



