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Of loitering rooks, thick urge their weary flight, 

 And feek the fhelter of the grove. 



But in his economy there is fomething fin- 

 gular. Tho the foreft is his winter-habitation 

 (if I may call that his habitation, which, like 

 other vagrants, he ufes only as a place to deep 

 in) he generally every day vifits his nurfery ; 

 keeping up the idea of a family, which he 

 begins to make provilion for in earneft very 

 early in the fpring. 



Among all the founds of animal nature, few 

 are more pleafmg than the cawing of rooks. 

 The rook has but two or three notes j and when 

 he attempts a folo, we cannot praife his fong. 

 But when he performs in concert, which is 

 his chief delight, thefe two or three notes, 

 tho rough in themfelves, being mixed, and 

 intermixed with the notes of a multitude, have 

 all their fharp edges worn off, and become 

 very harmonious : efpecially when foftened in 

 the air, where the band chiefly exhibits. You 

 have this mufic in perfection, when the 

 whole colony is roufed by the difcharge of a 



gun. The cawing of rooks however is 



a found not fo congenial to the foreft, as it 

 is to the grove. 



Among 



