. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. (^ROWS AND |A^'S 215 Crows and Ravens reach their southern limit in the Greater Antilles and on the highlands of Honduras, no peculiar species occurring south of central Mexico or Jamaica, the Greater Antilles lacking any representation of the Jays and Magpies and the Lesser Antilles being without a single member of either group. MAGPIE Pica pica hudsonia (Sabine) Names.â .Xnierican Magpie: Other Magpie. General Descriprion.â Length, ly;;! inches. Plum- age, black with white on .shoulders and abdomen. Tail, much longer than wing, graduated for â /.
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. (^ROWS AND |A^'S 215 Crows and Ravens reach their southern limit in the Greater Antilles and on the highlands of Honduras, no peculiar species occurring south of central Mexico or Jamaica, the Greater Antilles lacking any representation of the Jays and Magpies and the Lesser Antilles being without a single member of either group. MAGPIE Pica pica hudsonia (Sabine) Names.â .Xnierican Magpie: Other Magpie. General Descriprion.â Length, ly;;! inches. Plum- age, black with white on .shoulders and abdomen. Tail, much longer than wing, graduated for â /. or more of its length; wing, short and rounded; feet, stout. Color.â Adults: Head, neck, chest, upper breast, back, lesser wing-coverts, lower rump, upper and under tail-coverts, anal region, thighs, lower abdomen, and under wing-coverts, uniform black, the crown glossed with bronze, the back faintly glossed with bluish-grccn or bluish in certain lights; shoulders, lozi'cr hrrast, upper abdomen, sides, and flank's, U'liitc; a broad band of grayish-white across upi)er rump; prevailing color of middle and greater wing-coverts and secondaries metallic steel-blue, varying to bronzy-green ; primaries, blackish glossed with greenish-bronze, bluish-green, or steel-bluish; the inner webs of the primaries mostly white; tail, bright metallic bronzy-green, passing into metallic-purple ; iris, brown. Young: Similar to adults, but black of head, neck, etc., much duller, without metallic gloss ; feathers of throat usually with the basal white spots much larger, often conspicuously exposed .\. O. U. .\umbcr 475 Black-billed and frequently occupying, as large wedge-shaped spots, the central portion of the feathers of chest and upper breast, as well as throat. Nest and Eggs.â Nest: The nest proper, a bowl of mud and grass, surrounded and arched by an immense number of large and small sticks, is often the size of a barrel! Entrance, a hole on the side. They arc located in bushes or trees fr
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