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JACKDAWS. 



very midst of the world, it matters not to him. He seems 

 to know neither care nor sorrow, ever satisfied always 

 happy ! Who ever saw or heard of a moping, melancholy 

 Jackdaw ? 



We have in England another bird much resembling him 

 in manners and colour, though from certain distinguishing 

 features, such as a bent, orange-coloured beak and legs, &c., 

 it has been placed in another division of birds. It is the 

 Ked -legged Crow or Chough, never seeii in most parts of our 

 island, though in its favourite haunts, in front of high preci- 

 pices and steep rocks by the sea, often very abundant. Like 

 Jackdaws, the Choughs are easily tamed, and are as enter- 

 taining, and at the same time as troublesome when tamed. 

 On a lawn, where five were kept, one particular part of it 

 was found to turn brown, and exhibit all the appearance of a 

 field suffering under severe drought, covered as it was with 

 dead and withering tufts of grass, of which it was soon ascer- 

 tained the Choughs were incessantly employed in tearing up 



