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high rocks -, laying five or fix eggs. I have known 

 thefn fometimes to breed in hollow trees near a 

 rookery, and join thofe birds in their foraging par- 

 ties. In Ibme parts of Hampjhire they make their 

 nefts in rabbet holes : they alfo build in the in- 

 terliices between the upright and tranfome/^;/f^ of 

 Stone-Henge\ a proof of the prodigious height of that 

 flupendous antiquity •, for their nefts are placed 

 beyond the reach of the fhepherd-boys, who are al- 

 ways idling about the fpot. They are gregarious 

 birds \ and feed on infe6ls, grain, and feeds *. 



* The Caryocata6les, Wil, orn. 132. Edv:. tab. 240. a bird 

 of this genus, was Ihot near Mojly^iy Flintjhire, in Ocloher, 

 1753 ; fuppofed to have llraggled from Germany, where they 

 are common : and the Roller, another bird of this clafs, was 

 killed near Heljione bridge, Cor/i-zvall, in the autumn, 1766, 

 It is alfo a native oi Germany ; and is far the moft beautifull 

 oi i\\Q European birds. As an acquaintance with thefe wander- 

 ers may be agreeable to our readers, we have given its figure, 

 as well as that of the former. The one is copied from Mr. Ed~ 

 '■::>rds\ the other from a drawing by Paillou. Vide Appendix, 



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