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resident. It is also found in summer as far north 
as Sweden, but it returns southward on the approach 
of winter, drawing near villages or farm houses 
for protection during the severity of the season. 
It procures its food about the doors and sinks, 
where crumbs and small remnants of food are 
thrown, or gleans a supply from the stack yard. 
They begin to pair about the beginning of Feb- 
ruary, after which they retire to the woods and 
hedges, and other situations more remote from the 
habitations of man. The nest is generally built in 
a well trimmed hedge, thick evergreen, &c. and 
the eggs, four or five in number, are of a fine clear 
greenish blue. The nest, which the Hedge Accen- 
tor constructs with so much care and industry, is 
frequently appropriated by the Cuckoo wherein to 
deposit her egg. 
Bip) rug Ct aaa 
Aca IMPENNIS, Lin. 
This smgular-looking bird, which measured from 
two to three feet in length, and had a body about 
the size of a goose, 1s now generally supposed to 
be extinct, as for some years no specimen is known 
to have been taken in any part of the world. It 
was formerly found, though in no great numbers, 
in Sweden, Norway, Greenland, and other northern 
countries, and was frequently captured in Great 
