148 THE BIRDS OF SUSSEX. 



after this they returned, but conjugal disagreement finished 

 what the violence of the wind had begun. The work of 

 nidification was recommenced, but one bird was set upon 

 repairing the original, the other, upon building a new nest. 

 For a day or two the divided work proceeded, when, as if by 

 mutual compromise, both abandoned their separate under- 

 takings and flew off together in search of a more favoured 

 spot. The appearance at the same moment of a pair of 

 Ravens, who proceeded forthwith to build and incubate at 

 Parham Park, about eight miles distant, seems to mark out 

 that place as the haven of their choice. ' Italiam laeti 

 Latiumque petamus.^ " There was, however, a Raven's 

 nest at Parham Park long before the arrival of those birds, 

 and I suspect there were Ravens nesting in that Park for 

 many years before. About the year 1830 a pair nested near 

 the summit of the ruined gateway-tower of Bramber Castle, 

 and again in 1843 ; but these last were unfortunately shot. 

 Mr. Booth says, that in passing over the South Downs in 

 1876, near Saddlescombe, during September and October, he 

 noticed a pair of Ravens flying from the Dyke Hill. A year 

 or two later, a dead body, or rather a skeleton, of a man was 

 found in a patch of furze near the top of the hill, and that 

 as the Ravens had been often noticed about the same spot, 

 he had not the slightest doubt they had discovered it, and 

 had returned to it regularly, as long as there was anything 

 to attract them. 



GREY CEOW. 



Corvus comix. 



Although this species and the Black Crow are now con- 

 sidered to be identical, its habits in this county do not 



