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GENERAL REMARKS 
The pie or magpie is to be met with in certain diftri&s, but 
not in any great quantity : to this bird the inhabitants of Norway 
have given the name of tun-fugl , on account of its attachment to 
the habitations of mankind. If the pie makes his appearance in 
parts where he is not commonly feen, it is thought to be a fign of 
the approaching death of fome principal perfon refiding on the 
fpot. 
Among the pies, there is one of which the miffionary Leems 
makes no mention, though it claims attention, fince Mr. Thun- 
berg feems to be decidedly of opinion, that it is not a variety of the 
common pie, but a diftindl fpecies, only to be found in Lapland, 
As it has, as far as I know, never been figured before, I deem it 
incumbent upon me to prefent it to the reader. Mr. Thunberg 
has named it Corvus Lapponicus, and defcribed it in the following 
manner 
“ Char. Spec. Corvus Lapponicus : fordide albus, capite, eollo, 
u Deplore, alifque bafi cinereo-fufcis.” 
“ It is found,” fays Mr. Thunberg, “ in theTornea Lapmark. 
The general charadleriftics of this bird are the fame with 
" thofe of the common pie : it is, however, very wild, and fel- 
* ( dom fuffcrs any one to approach it within ffiot. It builds its 
u nefi: upon trees, in mountainous or high fituations: it is not every 
year to be feen near houfes; but when it comes, it generally 
makes its appearance towards the end of autumn, or in the be- 
“ ginning of winter, accompanied with about four young ones. 
In winter it thews itfelf chiefly when the weather is about to 
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