...This colony may havesprung from a bird hatched and reared in the nestof a carrion crow or magpie...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds and Man」
...It is so very easy to say, "Kill the sparrow, or shark, or magpie, or whatever it is, and then everything will be right...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
..."O wise Mother Magpie, dear Mother Magpie," they cried, "teach us how tobuild our nests like yours, for it is growing night, and we are tiredand sleepy...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...You have seen what wonderful swinging baskets the Oriolemakes for his baby-cradle? Well, it was the Magpie who taught him how,and he was the prize pupil, to be sure...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...But Mother Magpie was thoroughly disgusted, and refused to go on withthe lesson which had been so rudely interrupted by her pupils...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...For she had onlythe foundation laid criss-cross as the Magpie had shown her...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...NCEupon a time, when the world was very new and when the birds hadjust learned from Mother Magpie how to build their nests, some one said,"We ought to have a king...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...But the Magpie, in spite of her beauty,was at heart a wicked bird...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...This explains how the Magpie became a restless, noisy, black-and-whitebird as we know her to this day, having lost all her brilliant beautythrough the wickedness of her heart...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...Mother Magpie was the wisest and the slyest of all the birds, and it wasalways worth while, as Whitebird knew, to take lessons of her...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
..."It is a piece of silver!" he thought, but he sat perfectly still untilthe Magpie had stowed the coin safely in the hollow tree and had hoppedaway as if upon an unfinished errand...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...Then, after a while, a third time came back the Magpie to the dead tree...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...Mother Magpie was sitting on a bush waiting for him, for she had guessedwhat would happen to the greedy bird...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...They are generallythose of a few stoats or weasels, a Hawk, a Magpie, an owl, andtwo or three Jays...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...In hawking with Merlins, three of these birds were assigned tothe Magpie, two to the Lark, and in the chase of the Quail andLand-rail, the Sparrow-Hawk was associated with it...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...It also snaps young twigs off the treesand may, like the jay and magpie, destroy theeggs of game birds...
Frederick G. Aflalo 「Birds in the Calendar」
...American Magpie...
Harrison B Tordoff 「Check-list of the Birds of Kansas」
...A magpie, belonging to a barber at Rome, could imitate to a nicety almostevery word it heard...
Percy J. Billinghurst 「A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals」
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