. A history of British birds . VOL. II. S S 31;> PASSERES. CORVID^. Pica rustica (Scopoli*). THE PIE. Pica caudataA. Pica, BrhsoiiX. Beak hard, stout ami compressed, straight at the base,arched towards the point, sharp at the edges, and slightly notched near thetip of the upper mandible. Nostrils basal, hidden by stiff feathers, directedforwards. Wings short and rounded ; first primai-y attenuated for two-thirds * Corriis rusticus, i^coiioli, Aniius I. Histoiico-Naturalis, i>. -38 (1769). t Fleming, Hist. Brit. Animals, ]>. 87 (IS-JSj. :|; Ornithologie, ii. p. 35 (1760). PI
. A history of British birds . VOL. II. S S 31;> PASSERES. CORVID^. Pica rustica (Scopoli*). THE PIE. Pica caudataA. Pica, BrhsoiiX. Beak hard, stout ami compressed, straight at the base,arched towards the point, sharp at the edges, and slightly notched near thetip of the upper mandible. Nostrils basal, hidden by stiff feathers, directedforwards. Wings short and rounded ; first primai-y attenuated for two-thirds * Corriis rusticus, i^coiioli, Aniius I. Histoiico-Naturalis, i>. -38 (1769). t Fleming, Hist. Brit. Animals, ]>. 87 (IS-JSj. :|; Ornithologie, ii. p. 35 (1760). PIE. 313 of its leiigtli and very short ; tlie fourth or fifth the longest. Tail very longand graduated. Feet strong ; tarsns longer than the middle toe, to whidi limouter toe is united as fa\ as its first joint; claws curved and sharp. Altdough none of our birds is better known than thePie, yet its singular beauty is almost unsuspected bythose who are accustomed to see it only at a distance inthe fields, or penned in a cage where its feathers are soiledand its form is disfigure
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