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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. 



AUK, GREAT. 



ALCA IMPENNIS, Lin. 



This singular-looking bird, which measured from 

 two to three feet in length, and had a body about 

 the size of a goose, is 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 



