68 COEVID^. 



rarer towards the north ; unknown in Orkney. In Ireland it 

 occurs only in the southern counties at the present day. This 

 particular form of Garrulus seems to be peculiar to Europe. 



Genus PICA, Brisson, Orn. ii. p. 35 (1760). 



Pica — a Magpie, in classical Latin. Feminine of Picus, q. v. 



Pica rustica. Magpie. 



Corvus rusticusj Scopoli, Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 38 



(1769). 



Corvus Pica, LinncBus, S. N. i. p. 157 (1766). 



Corvus pica, Naum. ii. p. 101. 



Pica melanoleuca, Macg. i. p. 562. 



Pica caudata, Hewitson, p. 234 ; Gray, p. 85 ; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. 



p. 109 ; id. ed. 3, ii. p. 114 ; Gould, iii. pi. 63 ; Harting, 



p. 31. 

 Pica rustica, Newton, ii. p. 312 ; Dresser, iv. p. 509. 

 Magpie, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 107. 



Rustica ^ of or belonging to the country, rus. 



Resident in every county of England ; commoner in Scot- 

 land, except in the more remote isles ; and abundant in 

 Ireland. Generally distributed throughout the Paleearctic 

 Eegion and Western and Northern North America. 



Genus CORVUS, Linnceus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 155 (1766). 



Corvus = the Eaven, in classical Latin. Akin to KopaJ, comix, oorone, our 

 Eayen, Eook, and to Kpai?u = I caw, (cpajw = I cry, and Engl, to " ring." 



Corvus monedula. Jackdaw. 

 Corvus Monedula, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 156 (1766). 

 Corvus monedula, Naum. ii. p. 93 ; Macg. i. p. 552; Hewitson, 

 p. 232 ; Gray, p. 87 ; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 103 ; id. ed. 3, ii. 

 p. 108 ; Newton, ii. p. 305 ; Dresser, iv. p. 523 ; Gould, 

 iii. pi. 61 ; Harting, p. 31. 

 Jackdaw, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 102. 



Monedula = a Daw, in classical Latin. Derired by Ovid, in his account of 

 the nymph Arne being mythically turned into a Daw for having betrayed her 



