Plate CCCLVII. Male and Female.
Bill black; head, neck, fore part of breast and back black, glossed
with green and blue; middle of the back greyish-white; scapulars
white; smaller wing-coverts black, secondary coverts, alula and
primary coverts splendent with green and blue; primaries black,
glossed with green, their inner webs white, except at the end, and for
some way along their margin; secondaries bright blue, changing to
green, their inner webs greenish-black; tail splendent with bright
green, changing to greenish-yellow, purplish-red, bluish-purple, and
dark green at the end; breast and sides pure white; legs, abdomen,
lower tail-coverts, and lower wing-coverts, black.
_Male_, 18-1/2, 22-1/2.
Interior of Texas, West Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Rocky
Mountains, and Saskatchewan. Common. Resident.
Corvus Pica, Linn. Syst. Nat. v. i. p. 157.
Magpie, Corvus Pica, Wils. Amer. Orn.
Corvus Pica, Bonap. Syn. p. 57.
Magpie, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 219.
Common Magpie, Corvus Pica, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 408.