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borough ; Long Copse and Four-Mile Copse are favourite^ 

 resorts. The nest is also frequently found in the highest 

 trees in the beech avenues of the Forest," says Mr. Bos worth 

 Smith. 



I have never seen more than two of these birds at a time, 

 and never found two nests close together, so that it 

 appears to be a most unsociable bird, unlike its near 

 relation, the Rook. 



Corvus frugilegus. 



Rool: 



EGG OBSERVED. 



March 19th, 1866. 

 March 29th, 18t37. 

 March 17th, 1868. 

 March 12th, 1869. 

 1870. 

 This bird is almost as domesticated and almost as much 

 private property as ones barn-door fowls, simply because 

 certain people on whose land they have chanced to 

 establish their colonies, choose to consider Rook-shootinsr 

 sport ! 



They are very early breeders, perhaps the first of all. 

 Much has been written lately on the question of whether 

 rooks renew their old nests yearly or build fresh ones. The 

 rookery in the '' "Wilderness " of the College was just under 



