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smaller, and not quite so bright coloured; the 
ground is a lightish green, and it is much blotched 
with two shades of brown, one a dark dusky shade, 
the other a lighter greyish brown. 
Jackpaw, Corvus monedula. This somewhat 
mischievous but amusing bird is resident and 
common throughout the county. It adapts itself 
with considerable readiness to the locality in which 
it happens to find itself, taking to cliffs on the coast, 
cathedrals, church-towers and other high buildings 
inland, and in default of these to high trees. 
The food of the Jackdaw is various, but, except in 
the matter of eggs of all sorts, of which this bird is 
a notorious thief, I do not know that it does much 
mischief in its search for food, which seems, besides 
eggs, to consist of a great variety of things, such as 
carrion, insects of various kinds, seeds or grain, 
beetles and grubs from cow-dung. Like the Starling 
it may occasionally be seen taking a ride on the back 
of a sheep or cow and picking out the parasitic insects ; 
it also visits, but not often, the garden, to pick up a 
little fruit or vegetables. I find it nearly as constant 
an attendant when I feed my Gulls as the Rooks ; and 
it is very amusing to see how, when one of the Gulls 
has got a tit-bit to which a little Jackdaw takes a 
liking, the Jackdaw will walk and hop about close to 
the Gull until at last it is provoked to fly at it: of 
this assault the Jackdaw immediately takes advan- 
tage to fly off with the tit-bit which the Gull has 
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