THE RED-LEGGED CROW. 



Docile and amusing when tame. 



plying for food, or desirous of pleasing those 

 nho usually fondle them, their chattering is soft 

 and engaging. 



When tame, they are very docile and amusing, 

 and extremely regular to their time of feeding. 

 But, though perfectly familiar with their imme- 

 diate friends, they will not suffer a stranger to 

 touch them. 



The female builds her nest ahout the middle 

 of the cliffs, or in the most inaccessible parts of 

 ruins: here she lays four or five eggs, some- 

 what longer than those of the jackdaw, and of a 

 cinereous white, marked with irregular dusky 

 blotches. 



