BRITISH BIRDS. 



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These wary birds live in pairs, and are commonly 

 seen together flying at a great height, out of the 

 reach of the gun, while they are prowling over 

 the country in search of their food, which, with 

 penetrating eye, and acute scent, they discover afar 

 off. They pluck the feathers off the dead birds, toss 

 them aside, and then pick the flesh from the bones. 

 In winter they take shelter from the extremity of 

 the weather, in the hollows of rocky precipices. 



