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backed butcher-bird at Silborm . they are 

 rara; aves in this country. 



Crows * go in pairs tlit whole year 

 round. 



(^ortnsh choughs^ abound, and breed on 

 IJiac/ii/- Head and on all the cliffs of the 

 Sussex coast. 



The common wild pigeon, J or stock 

 dove, is a bird of passage in the south of 

 England, seldom appearing till towards the 

 end of November : is usually the latest win- 

 ter-bird of passage. Before our beechen 

 woods were so much destroyed, we had 

 myriads of them, reaching in strings for a 

 mile together as they went out in a morn- 

 ing to feed. They leave us early in Spring ; 

 w here do they breed ? 



The people of Hampshire and Sussex call 

 the missel-bird^ the storm-cock, because it 

 sings early in the Spring in blowing showery 

 weather ; its song often commences with 

 the year : with us it builds much in 

 orchards. 



• British ZoologA-. vol. 1 p. 167. t P. I9H 



t P. 216. § p. 224. 



