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robbing proclivities. An instance is recorded of a 

 colony of Terns banding together and surrounding a 

 Hooded Crow, which had visited their breeding grounds 

 on a plundering excursion. Driving him out to sea, 

 they gradually beat him lower and lower until he fell 

 exhausted into the sea and was drowned. 

 He can be easily kept in confinement. 



ROOK. 



CORVUS FRUGILEGUS. 



Family Passerid^. Sub-family Corvine. Genus Corvus. 



We must all be familiar with the Rook ; and we 

 have all, no doubt, watched with interest his move- 

 ments at the rookery. Everywhere in the British 

 Isles, where rich pasture lands and cultivation abound, 

 the Rook may be seen. In Hampshire they abound, 

 and as I am writing this they may be seen in the 



