4.6 
JACKDAW. 
DAW. KAE. 
Corvus monedula, Linnzvus. GMELIN 
Corvus—A Crow. Monedula—A Jackdaw, (perhaps from 
moneo—To warn; as a bird of augury.) 
Tre Jackdaw is found in Enrope, Asia, and the north of 
Africa; occurring in Germany, Denmark, France, Russia, Italy, 
the islands of the Mediterranean, Holland, Belgium, Siberia, 
Iceland, Asia Minor, and Asiatic Russia and Japan. . 
It mhabits England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; but 
‘doctors disagree’ about its being found in the Orkneys, 
Hebrides, and Shetland Islands, and I am unable to give a 
true verdict on the question. 
The Jackdaw is a gay, pert, bold, sprightly, and active 
bird. It is very easily tamed, and soon learns to imitate 
the sounds of the human voice, and exhibit other amusing 
results of its education. It naturally becomes attached to 
the person who feeds it; but the thievery of its race attaches 
too strongly to it to prevent it from pilfering his goods, 
whether glittering objects, or cherries and other fruits. Meyer 
says “We knew a Jackdaw that used to enter a bed-room 
window, and strip a pincushion of pins, scattering them about 
the table, to the no small perplexity of the owner, until the 
perpetrator was discovered.’ One of these birds, which we 
once kept in a walled garden, used invariably, in the most 
cunning manner, to go down the walk on one side, so as 
always to keep the ‘weather-gauge’ of any suspected pursue? 
on the other. 
Jackdaws frequent whatever places may be convenient to 
