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to caw loudly, as if entreating them to get up and 

 fly away. On several successive evenings, as the 

 Rooks passed, a number would swoop down to 

 their dead comrades in this way ; but one more 

 particularly evidently a near relative of one of 

 the fallen pair would sit on a tree hard by and 



ROOKS AT HOME. 



cazu for an hour or more at a time to his unrespon- 

 sive friends. After a week of this experience he 

 must have come to realise that they were really 

 dead, for he flew away and did not repeat his 

 plaintive calls. What seemed especially to ex- 

 asperate him was the conduct of two Grey Wagtails, 



