HOODED CROW— ROOK. 
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In the New Forest they hang about large kennels ; 
and the heaps of refuse near the Fareham Asylum are 
also a favourite hunting-ground. Corbin noticed an 
unusual abundance of this species in the New Forest 
in the winter of 1881-2.1 Mr. Witherby has noted one 
at Burley, which often remains the whole winter there ; 
it arrived in 1902, as early as August 25th, and remained 
as late as May 14th in 1903. 
More considered it an uncommon bird in the Isle of 
Wight. 
Dr. Sclater remembers one being shot on the Hackwood 
Estate, about 1845, which was paired with a carrion-crow. 2 
98. Corvus frugilegtis. Rook. 
" Birds in the high hall-garden 
When twilight was falling, 
Maud, Maud, Maud, Maud, 
They were crying and calling." 
Tennyson^ s Maud." 
A common resident everywhere. 
Though most usually rookeries are found in the neigh- 
bourhood of houses or in private grounds, they are not 
infrequently established in woods at a distance from habita- 
tions ; there is a large one in Sydmonton Beeches on the 
downs there, another in the woods near Faccombe, and 
others in various places on the downs of the Central Hill 
district. 
In the woods of the New Forest itself the rook seldom 
or never nests ; a colony took up its abode at Rowhill 
' " Zoologist." 1882. » " Hants Court Guide." 
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