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rally seen sitting with their heads facing 
the wind. 
A striking feature in the migration of 
this bird is,* that though it does not breed 
in England, yet it continues here till long 
after the Rook has begun her incubation, 
and that in many counties it is never seen 
at all. We believe but very rarely even 
at Royston, from which place it derives its 
epithet. The eastern coast is the part 
where it occurs most frequently. 
The Hooded Crow is an inhabitant of 
many parts of Europe, but appears to have 
been totally unknown to the ancients. 
They breed in vast numbers in the 
Feroe Isles. 
* We are informed that a pair of these birds built a 
nest and reared their young during the season of ISlO, in 
the neighbourhood of King's Lynn. 
