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The Chough also feeds on grasshoppers, fern-chaffers, great 
chaffers, and other insects, berries, and occasionally grain. It 
also follows the plough for upturned grubs (Yarrell). 
Raven, Crow, and Hooprep Crow.—Small Mammalia, birds, 
eggs, reptiles, grain, insects, molluscs, and carrion. 
Roox.—Grubs of common cockchaffer, locusts, wireworms of 
several sorts, larve of the crane-fly, caterpillars of Agrotis segetum 
(Yarrell). Also grain and walnuts, and in dry summers they 
destroy many eggs (F. Norgate). In January, Rooks eat field-mice 
and grubs of cockchaffers ; February, red-worms, field-mice, and 
grubs of cockchaffers; March, larve and pupe ; April, slugs, 
worms, and pups; May, beetles, larve, prawns, and wireworms ; 
June, cockchaffers, eggs of birds, and wood-boring beetles ; July, 
young birds, beetles, &c.; August, birds, field-mice, weevils, 
grasshoppers, crickets, &c.; September, worms and grubs; 
October, grasshoppers, ground-beetles, and young animals ; 
November, young rabbits, grubs, and insects; December, anima 
and decaying substances (Florent Prevost). 
Jackpaw.—Insects, seeds, grain, eggs, carrion, Mollusca, and 
Crustacea. They also perch on the backs of sheep for insects or 
wool, perhaps both (Yarrell). 
Maeris.—Young animals, young birds, eggs, fish, carrion, 
insects, fruit, and grain (Yarrell). In January, grubs of cock- 
chaffers, beetles, and seeds; February, grubs of cockchaffers, 
beetles, seeds, and berries; May, cockchafters, glow-worms, and 
fruit; June, cockchaffers, glow-worms, weevils, and fruit; July, 
beetles and field-mice; August, birds’ eggs and weevils; Sep- 
tember, beetles, worms, barley, and grasshoppers; October, 
grasshoppers, carrion-beetles, and green locusts; November, 
grasshoppers and kernels of fruit; December, grubs of cockchaffers, 
berries, and young rabbits (Florent Prevost). 
Jay.—Insects, worms, peas, cherries (Yarrell). January, 
grubs of cockchaffers, acorns, and berries; February, pupe, grain, 
seed; March, grubs, insects, corn; April, grubs, beetles, and 
snails; May, cockchaffers and locusts; June, eggs of birds, 
cockchaffers, and beetles; July, young birds, flies, and beetles; 
August, young birds, flies, beetles, acorns, grubs, and dragonflies ; 
September, young birds, flies, acorns, beetles, grubs, dragonflies, 
and fruits ; October, beetles, slugs, snails, and grain ; November, 
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