bearing place that fuits their purpofe, Bewick quotes the 

 following curious circumftance relating thereto, which occur- 

 red at Dallam-Tower in Weftmoreland, the feat of Daniel 

 Wilfon, Efq. " There were two groves adjoining the park, 

 one of which for many years had been reforted to by a number 

 of Herons, which there built and bred ; the other was one of 

 the Iar?eft rookeries in the country. The two tribes lived 

 together for a long time without any difputes. At length the 

 trees occupied by the Herons, confifting of fome fine old oaks^ 

 were cut down in the fpring of 1775, and the young brood 

 peri (lied by the fall of the timber. The parent birds imme- 

 diately fet about preparing new habitations, in order to breed 

 again, but as the trees in the neighbourhood of their old nefts 

 were only of late growth and not fufficiently high, to fecure 

 them from the depredations of boys, they determined to effect; 

 a fettlement in the rookery. The rooks made an obftinate 

 refiftance, but after a very violent conteft, in which many 

 of the rooks and fome of their antagonifts loft their lives, the 

 Herons fucceeded in their attempt, built their nefts and reared 

 their young. Next feafon the fame kind of conteft took place, 

 which terminated like the former, fmce which they have lived 

 together in the fame harmony as before their quarrel." 



Thefe birds are very longlived, mention is made of one 

 ftruck by a hawk in Holland fome few years ago, that had a 

 filver plate affixed to one of its legs, importing that the fame 

 bird had been ftruck by one of the Eledlor of Cologne's hawks 

 in 1735. Their cry is very loud and harfh, and may frequently 

 be heard when the bird foars beyond our fight, as it utters its 

 fere am chiefly when on wing. Except in the breeding feafon 

 its habits are very folitary, it has been frequently feen ftanding 



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