642 BIRDS. PIES. Crow. 



a. 1. Id. ftem. 10. t. 12. f. 1. a. b. c. Id. ov. 22. t. 8. f. 3.— Pie. Buff. oif. iii. 85. t. 7. PL enl. n. 

 488. — Magpie, Pianet, or Payet. Brit. zool. i. 225. n. 78. D°. ill. 77. t. d. f. 2. Arft. zool. ii. 

 247. n. 136. Hayes, brit. b. t. 8. Lewin, brit. b. t. 39. Albin, av. i. t. 15. Raj. av. 41. t. 1. Will. 

 orn. angl. 127. t. 19. — Skata, Skiura, Skara. Faun. fuec. n. 92. — Aelfter. Frifch, av. t. 58. Gunth. 

 neft. t. 53. — Gazza, Putta. Zinnan. uov. 66. 



Inhabits Europe, North America, Northern Alia, Japan, and Madeira. — This common but very 

 beautiful bird is about eighteen inches long, twenty-four in extent of wings, and weighs about nine 

 ounces ; it is crafty, reftlefs, noify, quarrelfome, and fhy, but may be tamed, and learns to imitate 

 the human voice; it frequents towers, villages, and fields; Dr Gmelin fays that it diflikes the woods, 

 but in this he has certainly been mifinformed, as it is very common in the woods of Britain, and 

 builds in trees, covering the neft very artificially with thorns, leaving a narrow entrance ; it feeds al- 

 moft on any kind of vegetable or animal fubftance, is very deftruftive to gardens and orchards, and 

 even deftroys chickens : The black colour of the body and tail is moft beautifully gloffed with green 

 and purple : The eggs are brownifh-green, thickly interfperfed with black or duiky fpots. 



^45 /3. Sooty Magpie. — C. Pica fuliginofa. 



Is varied with footy-black and white, having red eyes. Muf. carlf. iii. t. 53. Lath. incL 

 orn. i. 163. n. 32. 5*. 



This variety was found, in 1781, in the parifli of Padasjoki, in the province of Tavaftland in Swe- 

 den : The bill, legs, and feet, are black. 



646 y. Streaked Magpie. — C. Pica ftriata. 



Is longitudinally llreaked on the body with black and white. Lath. ind. orn. i. 163. n. 32-.. 

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This variety is preferved in the Leverian Mufeunu 



647 ^. White Magpie.' — $$- @- C. Pica Candida,. 



Is entirely white. Lath. ind. orn. i. 162. n, 32. <s.- 

 Pica Candida. Briff. av. ii. 39. n. 1. A. t. 3. f. 1. 



We are not informed where this variety was found, but it is probable that both it and the two for- 

 mer are merely accidental. — T. 



648 38. Senegal Crow. — 34. Cowusfenegaknfts. 14. 



Is black with a violet glofs, having brown wing and tail quills edged with black, and a 

 wedge-like tail. Lath. ind. orn. i. 163. n. 33. 



C. afer. Syft. nat. ed. Gm. i. 273. n. 12. — Pica fenegalenfis. Briff. av. ii. 40. n. 2. t. 3.T. 2. — 

 Pie du Senegal. Buff. oif. iii. 97. PI. enl, n. 538. — Senegal Crow. Lath. fyn. i. 394. n. 31. 



Inhabits Africa, near the river Senegal. — Is about the fize of the Magpie, meafuring fourteen inches 

 long : The under parts of the body are dirty black ; the bill, legs, and feet, are black ; the black 



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