CHOUGH. 



it has also frequented a score of years ago, but a war of 

 extermination has been carried on against it, and the conse- 

 quence I need not relate. Whitehaven, in Cumberland, has 

 been another of its resorts. In August, 1832, a lled-legged 

 Crow was killed on the Wiltshire Downs, between Marlborough 

 and Calne. It has also been seen on Mitcham Common, in 

 Surrey. In 1826, one was shot at Lindridge, in Worces- 

 tershire. 



In Wales, it has occurred in the cliffs of Glamorganshire; 

 and is common in those of Pembrokeshire, from Tenby to 

 St. David's Head; Flintshire, the Isle of Anglesea, and Denbigh- 

 shire. In the latter place a pair bred for many years in the 

 appropriate ruins of Crow Castle, in the inland and beautiful 

 vale of Llangollen; but one of them being killed by accident, 

 the other continued to haunt the same p~!ace for two or three 

 years without tinding another mate, which was certainly a 

 'singular' circumstance; also in the Isle of Man, and in Jersey. 



In Ireland, according to Mr. Thompson, of Belfast, it is to 

 be found in suitable localities all round the island; in some 

 parts, particularly near Fairhead, in considerable abundance, 

 the basaltic precipices of those parts being peculiarly suited 

 to it: a pair were seen at Belfast, after a storm of wind from 

 the south, on the 5th. of March, 183G. 



In Scotland, it has been known on the rocky cliffs between 

 St. Abb's Head and Fast Castle; Coldingham; and near 

 Berwick-on-Tweed; in Sutherlandshire, at Durness, and other 

 precipitous parts, but rarely; Portpatrick, Wigtonshire; Bal- 

 lantrae Castle, Ayrshire; and the coast; as also in the Hebrides, 

 in the Island of Barry, and in Galloway. 



These birds, which are very easily tamed, and become 

 extremely docile, exhibit all the restless activity, prying curiosity, 

 and thievish propensities of their cousins the Crows: they 

 have in sooth a 'monomania' for pretty larceny, especially of 

 glittering objects; and it is said that houses have been set 

 on fire by lighted sticks which they have carried off. In their 

 wild state they are very shy; but in the breeding season they 

 have allowed themselves to be approached within half-a-dozen 

 yards. In the autumn and winter they keep in families. The 

 following particulars are related of one kept tame by Colonel 

 Montagu: It used to avoid walking on grass, preferring the 

 gravel walk; (Mr. Thompson, however, quotes from Dr. J. D. 

 Marshall's 'Memoir of the Island of Eathlin,' that there they 

 frequent the pasture fields even more than the shores,) was 



