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^ ) IR Hexry Gorse, in his " Birds of 

 Jamaica," tells his readers of a 

 " famous bird which he saw in that 

 country, and which goes by the name 

 of the John Crow vulture. " If this vul- 

 ture finds a young pig, ''' says vSir Henry, " that 

 has strayed away from its mother, he will come 

 down, seize it with his beak, and endeavor to 

 drag it awa}-. But if the little hel|)less fellow's 

 cries alarm its mother, he will give it such a 

 wound, before she can come to the spot, that it 

 will soon die, in which case he is sure of it, 

 as he can take it off some other time, at his 

 leisure. He will attack cattle, when they are 

 sick, and hasten their death. One of Mr. Hill's 

 servants once saw a living dog partly devoured 

 by one. The dogs of the negroes, half-starved 

 at home, 'bony, and gaunt, and grim,' if thev 



