Gist <MLAYGAPL! FE: 225 
La Pie. Belox av. 291. Corvus Pica. Lin. fy. 157. 78. Macpis. 
Pica varia et caudata. Gefmer Skata, Skiura, Skara. Faua. 
av. 695. Suec. fp. 92. 
Aldr. av. 1, 392. Danifh Skade, Huus Skade. 
The Magpie, or Pianet. Wil. Norv. Skior, 'Tunfugl. 
ora. 127. Brunnich, 32. 
Raii fyn. av. 4. Aelfter. Fri/ch, I. 58. 
La Pie. Brifon, Il. 35. Mf. Alfter. Kram. 335. 
ad’ Gys, UI. 85. Br. Zool. 77. plate D. z. 
Gazza, Putta. Zinan. 66. Praka. Scopolz, No. 38. 
HE great beauty of this very common bird 
was fo little attended to, that the editors of 
the Britifh Zoology thought ft to publifh a print 
of it after a painting by the celebrated Barlow. 
The marks of this fpecies are fo well known, that 
it would be impertinent to detain the reader with 
the particulars. 
' We fhall only obferve the colors of this bird : 
its black, its white, its green, and purple, and the 
rich and gilded combination of gloffes on the tail, 
are at left equal to thofe that adorn the plumage of 
any other. It bears a great refemblance to the 
butcher-bird in its bill, which has a fharp. procefs 
near the end of the upper mandible; in the fhort- 
nefs of its wings, and the form of the tail, each 
feather fhortening from the two middlemoft : 
it agrees alfo in its food; which are worms, in- 
feéts, and {mall birds. It will deftroy young chick- 
Cns 5 
