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listener, when the bird is out of sight, is very apt to be 

 deceived. This peculiarity of the Raven is referred to by 

 Sir David Lindsay in his Complaynt of Scotland, where he 

 says : — " He be grit subtiltie neurissit tua zong Corbies in 

 tua cagis in tua syndry housis, and he leyrnit them bayth 

 to speik." 



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