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whether the same or not one cannot tell 

 showed themselves yet more confiding, building 

 their nest and bringing off their brood in the 

 ivy on the wall close to the front door of the 

 house, the nest being not four feet from a bed- 

 room window. It was a quaint and novel sight 

 to see the cock in all his marital splendour of 

 colouring perched on the roof, or on the gutter 

 after the manner of the common sparrow. 



To the instances given above many additions 

 might doubtless be made, as, for example, a case 

 recently brought to my notice where a family 

 of jays were seen following the example of the 

 sea-gull already mentioned, and feeding on the 

 corn- stocks in a field adjacent to the wood where 

 they had been hatched. Or, leaving birds for 

 the moment, one might instance the squirrel, 

 which, like some of the birds we have been con- 

 sidering, has recently been found to be morally 

 on a down-grade and, in the case of individuals 

 at least, acquiring a new and unworthy habit of 

 robbing small birds' nests of their eggs and 

 young. 



