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in the rabbit-burrows under ground. The way he 

 and his brothers used to take their nests, while 

 they were boys, was by listening at the mouths of 

 the holes ; and if they heard the young ones cry, 

 they twisted the nest out with a forked stick. 

 Some water-fowls (viz. the puffins) breed, I know, 

 in that manner ; but I should never have sus- 

 pected the daws of building in holes on the fiat 

 ground. 



Another very unlikely spot is made use of by 

 daws as a place to breed in, and that is Stonehenge. 

 These birds deposit their nests in the interstices 

 between the upright and the impost stones of that 

 amazing work of antiquity : which circumstance 

 alone speaks the prodigious height of the upright 

 stones, that they should be tall enough to secure 

 those nests from the annoyance of shepherd boys, 

 who are always idling round that place. 



One of my neighbours last Saturday, November 

 the 26th, saw a martin in a sheltered bottom : the 

 sun shone warm, and the bird was hawking briskly 

 after fiies. I am now perfectly satisfied that they do 

 not all leave this island in the winter. 



You judge very right, I think, in speaking with 

 reserve and caution concerning the cures done by 

 toads ; for, let people advance what they will on 

 such subjects, yet there is such a propensity in man- 

 kind towards deceiving and being deceived, that 

 one cannot safely relate anything from common 



