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had to part with her for the reasons already given. 

 I have no doubt she is yet alive, for these birds 

 survive to a very great age, and are very easy to cater 

 for, everything being fish that comes to their net. I 

 fed "Grippa" chiefly on dead birds, mice and bits of 

 meat; bones she was fond of picking and she would 

 eat cooked potatoes and cabbage, or any kind of scraps 

 from the table. She was also partial to snails (hoddinods) 

 and to fish of any kind. In fact I never knew her to 

 refuse anything that was offered to her with the excep- 

 tion of my poor old Bicudo and that rat. 



The scientific name of the Raven is Corvus cora. 



