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CROW. 



descending after them to pick up the contents. The same habit 

 is observable in the Gull, the Raven, and Sea-side Crow. Many 

 other aquatic insects, as well as marine plants, furnish him with 

 food ; which accounts for their being so generally found, and so nu- 

 merous on the sea shore, and along the banks of our large rivers. 



