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CORVINE. PICA. 
pact. Legs of moderate length, strong ; tarsus stout, com- 
pressed, with eight scutella ; toes of moderate length, stout, 
first large, stronger ; lateral nearly equal, third considerably 
longer. Claws strong, arched, compressed, acute. Plu- 
mage full, soft, blended. Wings of moderate length, much 
rounded^ the first quill Very short, extremely narrow and 
falciform, fourth and fifth longest. Tail very long, gra- 
duated. Digestive organs as in Corvus. 
227. 1. Pica melanoleuca, Vieill. Common Magpie 
Plate CCCLVIL Male and Female. 
Bill black ; head, neck, fore part of breast and back black, glossed 
with green and blue; middle of the back greyish- white ; scapulars 
white ; smaller wing-coverts black, secondary coverts, alula and pri- 
mary coverts splendent with green and blue ; primaries black, glossed 
with green, their inner webs white, except at the end, and for some 
way along their margin ; secondaries bright blue, changing to green, 
their inner webs greenish-black ; tail splendent with bright green, 
changing to greenish-yellow, purplish-red, bluish-purple, and dark 
green at the end ; breast and sides pure white ; legs, abdomen, lower 
tail- coverts, and lower wing-coverts, black. 
Male, 18i, 
Interior of Texas, West Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Rocky Moun- 
tains, and Saskatchewan. Common. Resident. 
Corvus Pica, Linn. Syst. Nat. v. i. p. 157. 
Magpie, Corvus Pica, Wils. Amer. Orn. 
Corvus Pica, Bonap. Syn. p. 57. 
Magpie, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 219. 
Common Magpie, Corvus Pica, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 408. 
228. 2. I^ca Nuttallii, Aud. Yellow-billed Magpie. 
Plate C(JCLXII. Fig. 1. Male; 
Bill and bare space beneath the eyes yellow ; in form, proportion, 
and size, similar to the last ; the feathers of the tail narrower ; the 
colours similar, but the top of the head glossed with green, and the 
black of the back and fore neck tinged with brown. 
Male, 18 ; wing, 7|. 
Upper California. Common. Resident. 
Corvus Nuttali, Yellow-billed Magpie, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 450. 
229. 3. Pica Bullockii, Wagler. Columbia Magpie. — Co- 
lumbia Jay. 
Plate XCVI. Adult. 
