crow. 33 



all seasons. One caught at York Fort, in a martin trap, was thought 

 a rarity, as the circumstance had not happened for twenty years 

 before. I find that it is called at Hudson's Bay, by some of the 

 Indians, Oue-ta-kee-aske, or Heart-Bird ; by others, She-pecum 

 memewuck.* We have observed several Varieties: viz. whollv 

 whitef — black and white in streaks^ — white and soot-colour ; with 

 other deviations from nature. § 



Camden || observes, that Magpies found in the Isle of Man, did 

 not inhabit it originally, but were carried there. 



22— NEW-CALEDONIAN MAGPIE. 



Corvus Caledonicus, Ind. Orn. Sup. xxv. 



Magpie of New-Caledonia, D' Entrecasteux's Voy. ii. 226. pi. 35. Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 

 116. 



LENGTH twenty inches. Bill black and stout, the end for 

 one-third yellowish, and slightly notched ; head black, the feathers 

 of it silky, and the webs loose; round the eye somewhat bare; whole 

 of the neck white, and a little of the same in the middle of the belly ; 

 but the general colour of the plumage otherwise black ; tail very 

 cuneiform, formed as in the Magpie, the two middle feathers eleven 

 inches long, the next on each side nine, diminishing regularly to the 

 outer ones, which measure no more than three inches and a half • 

 legs dusky. 



Inhabits the woods of New-Caledonia, described from a specimen 

 in the collection of Mr. Thompson, of St. Martin's Lane, London. 



* Mr. Hutchins. f Mus. Carls, t. 53. J Lev . Mus. 



§ Viz. an old bird of a dun-colour, with the wing coverts, breast, and belly white; also 

 three from one nest wholly cream-colour, with white bills ; and a fourth from the same 

 nest of the common hue. — See Gen, Syn. Sup. ii. p. 113. 



|| Magpies have been lately introduced, as well as Frogs.— Gough's Camd. Brit. p. 

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