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105. CORVUS MONEDULA, Linnseus. Jackdaw. 



Common, but rather local. Very numerous at 

 Flamborough, where they nest in holes in the chalk 

 cliffs, and are blamed, justly so, for plundering the 

 nests of the sea- fowl. 



A very beautiful pied variety was seen in this 

 parish for several weeks in the summer of 1869. In 

 the winter roosts in company with Rooks in our 

 large woodlands and plantations. 



106. PICA CAUDATA, Fleming. Magpie. 



Very generally distributed, and common even in 

 the Humber marshes'*, where they take advantage of 

 the huge solitary hawthorn bushes on the drain banks 

 for nesting. In the winter they congregate in 

 considerable numbers to roost in some favourite 

 plantation. 



107. GARRULUS GLAND ARIUS (Linnseus) . Jay. 



Common in all the woods and plantations, where it 

 breeds. More frequently observed, however, during 

 the autumn and winter, when they wander about the 

 country in bands, visiting all the small outlying plan- 

 tations and spinneys even to the banks of the Hum- 

 ber, situations where they are rarely seen in the 



* In those parts of the Lincolnshire fens and marshes where 

 the old hedgerows have been lowered the Maggie has become 

 comparatively scarce. 



