OF SELBORNE. 81 
above-mentioned gentleman told me when I was 
last at his house; which was, that in a warren 
joining to his outlet, many Daws (corvi monidule) 
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build every year in the rabbit-burrows under 
ground. The way he and his brothers used to 
take their nests, while they were boys, was by 
listening at the mouths of the holes, and if they 
heard the young ones cry, they twisted the nest 
out with a forked stick. Some water-fowls (viz., 
the puffins) place their nests, I know, in this man. 
ner; but I should never have suspected the daws 
of building in holes on the flat ground. 
Another very unlikely spot is made use of by 
daws as a place to build in, and that is Stonehenge. 
These birds deposite their nests in the interstices 
between the upright and the impost stones of that 
amazing work of antiquity, which circumstance 
alone speaks the prodigious height of the upright 
stones, that they should be tall enough to secure 
those nests from the annoyance of shepherd-boys, 
who are always idling round that place. 
