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hoody, apparently as tame and innocent as a chicken in the 
poultry-yard, but his watchful eye is never off one,—bring a gun, 
or hold a stick in a suspicious manner, and he is at once on the 
qui vive, and will with marvellous aptitude keep just out of gun- 
shot. Landt calls them thievish and mischievous birds; but in 
Feroe they certainly play the part of useful scavengers. Wolley 
remarks :—“ The raven, but still more the hooded crow, is almost 
a domestic bird in Faroe, and very abundant.” Herr Miiller 
informed me of an incident in reference to this bird and its young, 
which shows the hooded crow in the light of a faithful parent. 
Near Thorsvig, island of Stromoe, a nest of this bird was found in 
a ravine; the young ones were supposed to be killed, their upper 
mandibles cut off and the bodies left on the ground; one of the 
young, however, had not been killed, for shortly after it was seen 
flying with the old birds who fed it: it was subsequently shot in 
the month of August, so that for nearly four months it must have 
been supported by the parent birds. 
42. Corvus frugilegus, Linu. Rook. Native name, Hjaltlands- 
kraaka.—Appears in Feroe generally as a straggler, though 
sometimes in flocks. Miiller writes, that in March, 1855, he saw a 
large flock of them. One was killed near Thorshavn on the 6th 
February, 1868; and I was shown the skin of one in Suderoe, 
which had been killed there the previous winter, and its owner 
considered it a rare and valuable bird. 
43. Corvus monedula, Linn. Jackdaw.—Miiller records this 
bird as a rare straggler, and he has only procured three examples 
of it. 
44. Picus major, Linn. Great Spotted Woodpecker.—Miiller 
got two examples of this bird in September, 1861; he also received 
one from Qualvig, lst October, 1868, after north-east winds for 
three weeks; one from Nar; and one from Argehodde, found dead, 
the same month. 
45, Jynx lorquilla, Linn. Wryneck.—One of these birds was 
found dead in Thorshavn, 12th September, 1867; and Herr Miiller 
also received it in 1865 and 1866. . 
46. Troglodytes borealis, Fischer. Northern Wren. Native 
name, Mousabrouir.—This species of Wren is spread throughout 
the Feroe Islands, abundant in those parts where there are no rats 
or mice, and consequently where cats are not encouraged; but 
where the cat is numerous you may look in vain for this sweet 
