magpie (magpi)

[ sum, the scapulars, and a great part of the inner webs of the primaries are white; the bill and feet are black. The bird is from 15 to 20 inches long, according to the development of the tail, which is 12 inches or le in length, extremely graduated; the stretch of wings is about 2 feet. Magpies are omnivorous, like most corvine and garruline birds, and noted for their craftine , kleptomania, and mimicry. They nest in trees and shrubs, building a very Magpie ( Pica caudata). bulky structure, and lay from 6 to 9 pale-drab eggs, dotted, dashed, and blotched with brown. As a book-name, mag related pies or jays with long tails. The yellow - billed pie is extended to all the species of Pica and some few magpie of California is P. nuttalli. Blue magpies are cer tain long-tailed jays of the genus Cyano pol i us, as C. cyan us of eastern Asia and Japan, or C. cook i of Spain; also of the genus Uroci a, as U. erythrorhyncha, the red-billed blue magpie of the Orient. The bird called French magpie is the red-backed shrike, Lanius collurio. The name mag pie, or magpie - pigeon, is given to a strain of domestic pigeons bred to colors resembling those of the magpie. Magpie is often used adjectively with reference to some characteristic of the bird. IMG:content-0081.png:[blocks in formation] 3578 4. A bishop: so called from the black and white of his robes. [Old slang, Eng.] Let not those silk-worms and magpies have dominion Tom Brown, Works, I. 107. ( Davies.) over us. mahlstick Kauravas, ending in the victory of the former and the establishment of their rule. In reality, this narrative occupies but a fourth of the poem, the other three fourths being episodical and added at various times. The Mahabharata thus became a sort of encyclopedia, embracing everything that it concerned cultivated Hindu to know. and Irish.]