. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . qual, the fourthshorter than the third. Figured by Buffon, pi. Elum 522; Roux, Orn. Prov.,pi. 133; Gould, Supp., pi. B. of E. 140 Order II.—OMNIVOILE. Family CORVIDJE. {Bonaparte.) Genus Pica. (Brisson.) Generic Characters.—Beak middle-sized and strong, compressedlaterally, slightly arched, hooked at the tip, and garnished atits base with short stiff feathers; nostrils oblong; middle andexternal toe united at their origin. Wings short and rounded;first quill feather very short; fourth or fifth longest. Tail longand graduat
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . qual, the fourthshorter than the third. Figured by Buffon, pi. Elum 522; Roux, Orn. Prov.,pi. 133; Gould, Supp., pi. B. of E. 140 Order II.—OMNIVOILE. Family CORVIDJE. {Bonaparte.) Genus Pica. (Brisson.) Generic Characters.—Beak middle-sized and strong, compressedlaterally, slightly arched, hooked at the tip, and garnished atits base with short stiff feathers; nostrils oblong; middle andexternal toe united at their origin. Wings short and rounded;first quill feather very short; fourth or fifth longest. Tail longand graduated. AZURE-WINGED MAGPIE. Pica Cyanea, Waglek; Syst. Av. (1827.) BONAPARTE. ScHINZ. ScHLEGEL. Corvus Cyanus, Pallas ; App. to Voyage. (1776.) Latham. G-melin. Garrulus Cyanus, Temminck. Pica Cyana, Keyserling et Blasius. Deglanb. Pie turdoides, Of the French. Blaue Ulster, Of the Germans. Blue Crow, Latham. Specific Characters.—Head deep black; wings and tail blue;apex of quill feathers white. LeDgth of adult male and femaletwelve to fourteen AZURE-WINGED MAGPIE. 141 This bird, the most beautiful member of its family,is an inhabitant of Spain, and, according to the cele-brated traveller Pallas, of Eastern Asia. It is found inthe Crimea and in Japan, in the northern part of whichempire it is common. It is not identical Avith thespecies found in Africa by Le Vaillant; and Deglandsays that specimens which he has examined from theCaucasus are larger, and have not the tail featherstipped with white like the Spanish individuals. In the Revue et Magazin de Zoologie, for May,1858, M. Pucheran remarks that an individual of thisspecies, presented to the National Collection of France,by M. Leclancher, from Nankin, has the first quillfeather much shorter than specimens from Shang-Haiand Japan, and that the secondaries are shorter asks ornithologists who have many specimens tocompare, to note this fact, as he thinks if this is foundto be a constant differen
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