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most predacious birds, he is more or less a 

 wanderer. At times a pair will settle, if it is 

 possible for them to do so, but this is very rare 

 now ; for the crow is, I think, above all other 

 birds, the game preserver's aversion. Bold- 

 ness, craft, and perseverance, with any amount 

 of quiet courage thrown in, are judiciously 

 blended in the crow ; or, as the late Charles 

 Waterton so often called him, and not without 

 good reason, the warrior bird. 



The changes in the treatment of all kinds 

 of stock has, within the last fifty years, been 

 a very great drawback to our sable searcher. 

 Sheep at one time furnished him with pro- 

 vender; but these our readers must not for 

 one moment picture as dainty little flocks 

 of the most approved breeds, such as they 

 may have been used to look at in their walks 

 abroad. These latter are of the present time 

 only. 



Instead of the smaller fancy flocks, imagine 

 thousands of light dots spread over the grazing 

 marshes all sheep, and miles of feeding for 

 them. Then, as you travel on, still more 

 sheep, until at last the eyes weary at the sight 

 of them. Sheep are not favourites of mine : 

 of both sheep and fish I have had more than 



