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228 GENERAL REMARKS
The pie or magpie is to be met with in certain diftri¢ts, but
not in any great quantity: to this bird the inhabitants of Norway
have given the name of /u#-/ug/, on account of its attachment to
the habitations of mankind. If the pie makes his appearance in
parts where he is not commonly feen, it is thought to be a fign of
the approaching death of fome principal perfon refiding on the
{pot.
Among the pies, there is one of which the miffionary Leems
makes no mention, though it claims attention, fince Mr. Thun-
berg feems to. be decidedly of opinion, that it is not a variety of the
common pie, but a diftinct fpecies, only to be found in Lapland.
As it has, as far as I know, never been figured before, I deem it
incumbent upon me to prefent it to the reader. Mr. Thunberg
has named it Corvus Lapponicus, and defcribed it in the following
manner :-—
“Char. Spec. Corvus Lapponicus : fordide albus, capite, collo,
* nectore, alifque bafi cinereo-fufcis.”
‘It is found,” fays Mr. Thunberg, “in the Torneé Lapmark.
“The general characteriftics of this bird are the fame with
thofe of the common pie: it is, however, very wild, and fel-
dom fuffers any one to approach it within fhot. It builds its
ne{t upon trees, in mountainous or high fituations: it is not every
year to be feen near houfes; but when it comes, it generally
makes its appearance towards the end of autumn, or in the be-
ginning of winter, accompanied with about four young ones.
‘* In winter it fhews itfelf chiefly when the weather is about to
fet
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