MAGPIES

[darren.naish@port.ac.uk]

Jaime wrote...

> Magpies look like crows, but they're not. They're not
> even corvids.

??? The magpies I know (_Pica_) are good, honest corvids. Could you 
have been thinking of Australian magpies?


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