bouring place that fuits their purpofe. Bewick quotes the 
following curious circumftance relating, thereto, which occur- 
red at Daliam-Tower in Weflmoreland, the feat of Daniel 
Wilf@n, 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 largeft rookeries in the country. The two tribes lived 
together for a long time without any difputes. At length the 
trees occupied by the Herons, confiding of fome fine old oaks, 
were cut down in the fpring of 1775, and the young brood 
perifhed 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 nefls 
were only of late growth and not fufficiently high, to fecure 
them from the depredations of boys, they determined to efFe6l 
a fettlement in the rookery. The rooks made an obftinate 
refinance, 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, fince 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 
fiiver plate affixed to one of its legs, importing that the fame 
bird had been ftruck by one of the Elector 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 
fcream chiefly when on wing. Except in the breeding feafon 
its habits are very folitary, it has been frequently feen ftanding 
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