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JACKDAW. 
DAW. KAE. 
PLATE XLVII. 
Corvus monedula, : d ; Linnzvus. GMELIN. 
JacKDAWSs build in cliffs, church and other towers, 
rabbit burrows, the roofs of buildings, the holes of ruins, 
hollow trees, the sides of chalk-pits, and even in chim- 
neys, despite of the smoke, as if conscious that it could 
not biacken their plumage; they inhabited the ruins of 
Stonehenge in Pennant’s time, and may do so yet. 
The nest is built of sticks, and is lined with wool, 
hair, grass, and other soft substances. Very large 
quantities of sticks are collected for the purpose, so as 
even to block up chimneys, and the spiral stairs of 
church towers; the immense masses heaped together in 
the western towers of York Minster, formed a most 
unfortunate kind of firewood for the last tremendous 
conflagration that occurred there. They used to build 
in the tower of my own church, but when it was re- 
stored, wire net-work was placed in the belfry window, 
so as effectually to stop them there; one persevering 
pair, however, would not be even thus foiled, but 
actually brought a mass of sticks through one of the 
loop-holes in the tower; and though their being natu- 
rally conveyed crosswise in their bills created an almost 
insuperable difficulty, quantities falling down outside, 
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