All Rights Reserved. May, 1921. 
BIRD NOTES: 
THE 
JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB 
The Senegal Pie (Cryptorhina afra.) 
By W. Shore Baily. 
Early in March this year, a consignment of these birds 
was landed at Marseilles ; a pair of which went on to Mr. Rogers, 
of Liverpool, from whence they found their way to the Boyers 
House aviaries. 
These birds appear to have been very rarely imported 
into Europe, as Mr. Rogers states that he had never previously 
seen them. 
Provided one is able to give them an aviary to themselves 
they make very good aviary birds, for, although Mr. Rogers, 
whilst he had them, appears to have kept them safely with other 
birds, I should not myself care to trust them in an enclosure 
with birds at all smaller or w^eaker than themselves. 
, fn size they are about equal to an English Jackdaw, but 
have long tails like our Magpie. Colour: glossy black; 
piimaries and undersides of tail-feathers dark brown, especially 
noticeable when the bird is on the wing. Eye prominent and 
rich reddish-brown. Bill and feet black, except in the female, 
which has the bill rose-colour with a black tip. However, this 
sex distinction, according to Dr. Millet Horsin, appears to be 
doubtful. Their demeanour in captivity is very like that of 
our Jackdaw and Magpie. I feed them on bread and milk and 
biscuit meal. They are also very fond of mice, birds' eggs, 
and cooked meat. 
Writing of this bird in B.N. for 1909, Dr. E. Hopkinson 
says : — 
" This bird, which is commonly called the ' Jackdaw ' 
by the English in Bathurst, and ' Pie-Pie ' by the native boys, 
looks very like, and in its habits very much resembles, a large 
