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THE ROOK. 



Parish. 



Longforma- 

 cus. 



Mording- 

 ton. 



Situation of 

 Rookery. 



In the policy 

 grounds of 

 Longforma- 

 cus House. 



Near Mording 

 ton House. 



Kinds and 

 age of trees. 



Ash, beech, 

 elm, plane. 



Size of 

 Rookery. 



500 nests 

 and up- 

 wards. 



Plane, ash, 

 elm, from 

 100 to 300 

 years old. 



There are 3 

 rookeries 

 of about 

 300 nests 

 each. 



Name and 

 Address of 

 Reporter. 



Rev. George 

 Cook, The 

 Manse, Long- 

 formacus. 



Robert Camp- 

 bell-Renton, 

 yi'. of Mor- 

 d i n g t on, 

 M o rdington 

 House, near 

 Berwick-on- 

 Tweed. 



Remarks. 



There are four 

 rookeries at 



Longformacus 

 House, \yithin a 

 radius of a mile. 

 The Rooks roost 

 at the Longfor- 

 macus Rookery 

 the whole year 

 round, includ- 

 ing the winter 

 months. They 

 are more numer- 

 ous in severe 

 weather. 



Rooks have in- 

 creased in the 

 parish during 

 the last twenty 

 years. — Rev. 

 George Cook,The 

 Manse, Longfor- 

 macus, Duns. 



Rooks have largely 

 increased in num- 

 bers in the parish 

 within the last 

 twenty years. 

 One rookery, 

 now containing 

 300 nests, has 

 been in existence 

 for only five 

 years. About a 

 thousand young 

 Rooks were shot 

 in May 1887.— 

 Robt. Campbell- 

 Renton, Mor- 

 dington House. 



The Rooks do not 

 roost at Mor- 

 dington at night 

 during the win- 

 ter months. They 

 begin to roost in 

 March, and give 

 up doing so when 

 the leaves begin 

 to fall in the 

 autumn. — James 

 Purves, game- 

 keeper, Mording- 

 ton. 



