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pair of my old friends the rooks. They remained 

 with us about three days, when, I suppose, not 

 liking the appearance of the place, they migrated 

 a few miles farther south ; but they might just as 

 well have remained where they were, for in a few 

 days they w ere brought in to me by a boy who 

 had shot them. This was adding a new fact to 

 the Swedish fauna. For what purpose they had 

 travelled up here was hard to say ; but the fact of 

 this single pair of rooks being met with so far 

 north, proves how much the habits of birds may 

 be altered by circumstances, for no bird is perhaps 

 more thoroughly gregarious than the rook. Now, if 

 these birds had come up here to breed, it must have 

 been like the carrion crow — in a solitary manner. 



I never saw the magpie (Pica caudata, Ray) 

 up at Quickiock, but they are occasionally met 

 with at Iockmock. 



Although I never met with the nutcracker 

 (Caryocatactes guttatus, Miss.) up here, I am 

 pretty certain that it breeds in Lapland, for the 

 Laps know the bird and have a name for it ; but 

 the breeding habits of this strange bird seem at 

 present to be shrouded in an impenetrable mystery. 



I never saw the jay (Garrulm glandarius, 

 Briss.) up here, but it seems occasionally to visit 

 these forests, for they describe a larger kind of 

 "lafskrika" at Quickiock, which, in some years, 



