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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
Genus — Garruhcs. 
93. Gamdus glandarms. Jay. 
Jay-bird. 
A common resident in all wooded parts of the mainland 
and the Isle of Wight ; particularly abundant in some of 
the larger woods. 
Mr. Corbin wrote in the " Zoologist," in 1902, to record 
a remarkable immigration of this species which he had 
observed since the beginning of October in that year, both 
in the New Forest and the woods to the west of the Avon. 
One keeper boasted that he had killed more in one day, 
about the middle of October, than he had seen for a 
couple of years previously, and one or two peregrines 
were observed to be preying upon them. 
Genus — Pica. 
94. Pica rustica. Magpie. 
A fairly common resident throughout the mainland 
and the Isle of Wight, but very much shot down by game 
preservers. 
Formerly it was evidently much more plentiful in 
the Island than it is now, or than it ever was on the 
mainland, and Bury wrote in 1844 that it "is almost as 
abundant with us, as I found it on the opposite shores 
of Normandy, where, I verily believe, it is more plentiful 
than any other species of bird." 
