BRITISH BIRDS. 



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THE JACK-DAW. 



(Corwis Mou edit la, Linn. Corbcau Chottcas, Temm.) 



THIS bird is considerably less than the Rook, 

 being only thirteen inches in length, and about 

 twenty-eight in breadth. The bill is black: eyes 

 white ; the hinder part of the head and neck hoary 

 grey ; the rest of the plumage is of a fine glossy 

 black above ; beneath dusky ; the legs are black. 



The Daw is very common in England, and 

 remains with us the whole year : in other countries, 

 as France and various parts of Germany, it is 

 migratory. They frequent churches, old towers, 

 and ruins, in great flocks, where they build : the 

 female lays five or six eggs, paler than those of the 

 Crow, and smaller. They rarely build in trees : in 



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