Like four-and-twenty blackbirds? And magpies!

I believe the answer is:

pied-

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(Other definitions for pied- that I've seen before include "Of various hues" , "This Piper was nasty in Hamelin" , "Coloured like the piper" , "With patches coloured differently" , "This Piper behaved badly in children's story from Hamelin" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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