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Clafs IL ] - BIRDS. 
SPECIES V. The Magpie. Plate D. 2. 
The Magpie,or Pianet JVil.orn. 127. 
Rail fyn. av. 41. 
Briffon 2. 35. 
T H E great beauty of this very common 
bird is fo little attended to, that we 
may be excufed recommending it to the 
attention of the public by the means of the 
pencil of a celebrated artift, rather than our own 
pen. We fhall only obferve that the colors of this 
bird : its black, its white, its green, and purple, 
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 lharp procefs 
near the end of the upper mandible ; in the ftiort- 
CorvusPica. Lin. Jyft. 106. 
Pica varia et caudata. Gefner av. 69. 
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, infects, 
and fmali birds. It will deftroy young chickens : 
it is a crafty, reftlefs, noify bird : it builds its neft 
with great art, covering it entirely with thorns, 
except one fmali hole for admittance : and lays 
fix or feven eggs of a pale green color fpotted 
with brown. The magpie weighs near nine ounces: 
the length is eighteen inches $ the breadth only 
twenty-four. 
SPECIES VI. 
JVil. orn. 130. 
Rail fyn. av. 41 • 
Garrulus. Briffon av. 2. 47, 
! ^ HIS beautiful bird weighs between 
fix and feven ounces: its length is thir- 
JL. teen inches : the breadth twenty-one. 
The irides are white : the fecondary feathers or 
the wmgs are adorned with bars of a rich glofiy 
blue, black and white difpofed tranfverfely, which 
diftinguilhes it from all other Britiflo birds. It 
lays five or fix eggs of a dull white, mottled very 
obfcurely with pale brown. I he young follow 
The Jay. Plate D. 
V * 
Corvus glandarius. Lin. Jyft. 106. 
Pica glandaria. Gefner av. 700. 
their parents till the fpring ; in the fummer they 
are very injurious to gardens, being great de- 
vourers of peafe and cherries : in the autumn and 
winter they feed on acorns, from whence the latin 
name. Dr. Kramer * obferves, that they will 
kill fmali birds. Jays are very docil, and may be 
brought to imitate the human voice : their native 
note is very loud and difagreable. 
* Kram. elench. 335* / 
SPECIES VII. The Chatterer. Plate G i. 
Bohemian chatterer. JVil orn. 133. 
Silk tail. Ran fyn. av. 85. 
Ray's letters , 198. 200. 
^ H E critical Faunijl * may poffibly 
I cenfure us for admitting a native of 
JH . Germany into a BritijJo zoology } but 
as we can plead the extreme beauty of this bird, 
* Faunifti, are writers on the animals of particular countries: fuch 
is Linnceu r, as author of the hiftory of the Swedijh animals, to which he 
gave the title of Fauna Suecica \ either from one of the names of Cybtle y 
who under that charafcter was faid to favour ail living cr:atures. 
Phil, trans. No. 175* 
Lanius garrulus. Lin-Jyft. 95. 
Garrulus Bohemicus .Gefnerav. 703. 
and that it does fometimes (tho’ very rarely) vifit 
the northern parts of England in large flocks, we 
hope to be excufed introducing it here. The 
fubjedt we toke the drawing from, was killed on 
Flam borough moor , Torkjldre. Its creft; its 
fine yellow marks on the wings and tail \ and 
T above 
