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| There is fcarcely any thing which Magpies do - | 
mot eat; and they are very careful too, for when 
they have had enough they, endeavour to iviie | 
- what is left for another time. 
Tt he. Magpie i is very ingenious in building his | 
neft: it is made firft of {mall twigs of hawthorn, 
and the thorns ftick outwards, they are faftened 
together with roots of grafs; it is then lined with 
grafs and wool, and plaftered within with mud. 
feen, and the Kites and Hawks would be very apt 
to take away its young, it is (perhaps for. that 
> reafon) quite covered on the top with thorns: 
. ‘i neft is very large: and as it may eafily be. 
thefe thorns are curioufly faftened together, fo : 
3 % that only one little. hole is left for the Magpie to 
r§ get in at, 
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4 The Magpie’s head, and ioasa sind back, and > 
"# tail, are of a beautiful black, ‘glofled with green, 

“Wings, are white; and his tail is very. dong. 
There are very beautiful Magpies in Ttaly and 
= NN in England. 
a The Magpie is eafily made tame. Mr. Buffon. . 
3 knew one that pafled both. the day and the night 
with a number of cats,. and made them all afraid » 
ot him, | 
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pe and blue, and purple; his breaft, and part of his - 
China, but they are not quite like this that is: 
