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green-spotted and speckled with brown. We took a young one 
from the nest and succeeded in rearing it: it became quite as tame 
as a jackdaw, flying loose about the place, and although the wild 
crows did their best to entice it away it would not leave us. This 
bird was not particular in its diet, and would eat anything that was 
given it. At night it roosted with the fowls, to some of which it 
showed considerable attachment; but it occasionally had furious 
battles with the cocks, always ending with the discomfiture of the 
fowl. We could not keep this interesting pet long, owing to its 
developing a propensity to kill chickens. 
The cornland crow {Corvus capensis) takes the place of the 
rook in England, being similar to it both in habits and colour; 
but it is a larger bird, hardly less in size than the former species. 
It is gregarious, and when large flocks alight on a field of 
young corn they do much damage; but its chief food consists of 
grubs, locusts, and other insects. This crow is easily tamed, and 
we are told that it has been taught to speak as well as the English 
jackdaw or magpie. Mr. Layard says that it breeds in trees, 
making a large nest of sticks, and laying from three to five eggs of 
a light pink colour, spotted with dark-brown pink. 
Corvus scapulatus.—This is another beautiful crow, rarer than 
the preceding species, and in colour black, except a broad patch 
between the shoulders, chest and belly, which is pure white. It is 
the same size as the coruland crow. It is not found in our neigh- 
bourhood, and we have only seen a few specimens up country, 
where we believe it is local. It is said to be the commonest crow 
in the western districts of the Cape Colony, where it makes its nest 
in trees, laying six eggs of a light blue, spotted with brown. 
Moles. — The chrysochlore, or golden mole (Chrysochloris 
capensis). This little quadruped is perhaps the most interesting 
of the class to which it belongs. Its habits are similar to those 
of the common mole, forming the same beautiful under-ground 
galleries and raising mounds of earth above them. It is of a 
beautiful golden brown colour, reflecting a variety of tints of a 
brilliant metallic lustre; this is peculiar to the chrysochlore, which 
is the only quadruped that displays these changing hues. Another 
distinguishing feature of this animal is the peculiar formation of 
its front feet, the outer claws of which are quite out of proportion 
to the rest, being half an inch long, and proving a most serviceable 
tool for burrowing the earth. The chrysochlore grows to the length 
