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Definition of European magpie
1. Noun. A common magpie of Eurasia.
Lexicographical Neighbors of European Magpie
Literary usage of European magpie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"... of the European magpie, also he considers the Chinese variety almost identical.
The l>»tan bird is at present shown to be the same ;- tin- P. ..."
2. The Birds of India: Being a Natural History of All the Birds Known to by Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1863)
"Pica bactriana, Bonap., from Afghanistan, is said to be distinct from the Indian
bird, more like the European magpie, and chiefly differing in its longer ..."
3. Key to North American Birds: Containing a Concise Account of Every Species by Elliott Coues (1872)
"The European magpie sometimes shows the same thing, and in some other species,
like P. mono, the bill is indifferently black or yellow. California. ..."
4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1886)
"Audubon had evidently numbered these drawings of his, and these numbers are 44,
77, and 96, a European magpie, a Coot, and a Green Woodpecker, respectively. ..."
5. Lahore to Yārkand: Incidents of the Route and Natural History of the by Allan Octavius Hume, M.D. George Henderson, Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth (1873)
"... are inseparable from the European magpie (Pica caudata, Ray, Pica varia, Gessner).
As to the distinctness of Pica bactriana, I am by no means certain; ..."
6. American Ornithology; Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States. by Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Jardine (1832)
"On carefully comparing it with the European magpie in the same collection, no
material difference could be perceived. The figure on the plate is reduced to ..."
7. The Standard Dictionary of Facts: History, Language, Literature, Biography edited by Henry Woldmar Ruoff (1909)
"Magpie. A bird belonging to the crow family. There are several species, two of
which belong to America. The common European magpie is about eighteen inches ..."
8. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"... 'which, without the least shyness, perched on the stem of the boat, and uttered
their note, which is quite different from that of the European magpie. ..."
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