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they lay, the cocks begin to feed the hens, 

 who receive their bounty with a fondling 

 tremulous voice and fluttering wings, and 

 all the little blandishments that are ex- 

 pressed by the young, while in a helpless 

 state. This gallant deportment of the 

 male is continued through the whole sea- 

 son of incubation. These birds do not 

 copulate on trees, nor in their nests, but 

 on the ground in the open fields. White. 



- After the first brood of rooks are suffi- 

 ciently fledged, they all leave their nest- 

 trees in the day-time, and resort to some 

 distant place in search of food, but return 

 regularly every evening, in vast flights, to 

 their nest-trees, where, after flying round 

 several times with much noise and clamour, 

 till they are all assembled together, they 

 take up their abode for the night. 



Markwick. 



