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Ordek II.— OMNIVOR^E. 



Family COBVIDjE. {Bonaparte.) 



Genus Pica. (Brisson.) 



Generic Characters. — Beak middle-sized and strong, compressed 

 laterally, slightly arched, hooked at the tip, and garnished at 

 its hase with short stiff feathers; nostrils oblong; middle and 

 external toe united at their origin. "Wings short and rounded; 

 first quill feather very short; fourth or fifth longest. Tail long 

 and graduated. 



AZURE- WINGED MAGPIE. 



Pica cyanea. 



Pica cyanea, 



CC it 



Corvus cyanus, 



(6 (6 



Garrulus cyanus, 

 Pica cyana, 



Pie turdoides, 

 Plane JSlster, 

 Blue Crow, 



Waglee; Syst. Av., 1827. 



BoNAPAETE. SCHINZ. ScHLEGEL. 



Pallas; App. to Voyage, 1776. 



Latham. Gmelin. 



Temminck. 



Ketseeling et Blasius. 



Degland. 



Of the French. 



Of the Germans. 



Latham. 



Specific Characters. — Head deep black; wings and tail blue; 

 apex of quill feathers white. Length of adult male and female 

 twelve to fourteen inches. 



