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smaller, and not quite so bright coloured ; the 

 ground is a lightish green, and it is much blotched 

 with two shades of brown, one a dark dusky shade, 

 the other a lighter greyish brown. 



JACKDAW, Corvus monedula. This somewhat 

 mischievous but amusing bird is resident and 

 common throughout the county. It adapts itself 

 with considerable readiness to the locality in which 

 it happens to find itself, taking to cliffs on the coast, 

 cathedrals, church-towers and other high buildings 

 inland, and in default of these to high trees. 



The food of the Jackdaw is various, but, except in 

 the matter of eggs of all sorts, of which this bird is 

 a notorious thief, I do not know that it does much 

 mischief in its search for food, which seems, besides 

 eggs, to consist of a great variety of things, such as 

 carrion, insects of various kinds, seeds or grain, 

 beetles and grubs from cow-dung. Like the Starling 

 it may occasionally be seen taking a ride on the back 

 of a sheep or cow and picking out the parasitic insects ; 

 it also visits, but not often, the garden, to pick up a 

 little fruit or vegetables. I find it nearly as constant 

 an attendant when I feed my Gulls as the Kooks ; and 

 it is very amusing to see how, when one of the Gulls 

 has got a tit-bit to which a little Jackdaw takes a 

 liking, the Jackdaw will walk and hop about close to 

 the Gull until at last it is provoked to fly at it : of 

 this assault the Jackdaw immediately takes advan- 

 tage to fly off with the tit-bit which the Gull has 



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