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known to build in hollow trees near a 
rookery. In some parts of Hampshire, 
from the great scarcity of towers and 
steeples, they are obliged to form their 
nests under ground in rabbit-burrows; 
they also build in the interstices between 
the upright and cross stones of Stone- 
henge, far out of the reach of the shepherd 
boys, who are always idling about that 
stupendous monument of Druidical Arch- 
itecture. 
In the isle of Ely, from the want of 
ruined edifices, they often build their 
nests in chimnies. An instance is re- 
corded that in a chimney (which had not 
been used for some time, wherein a nest 
of these birds had been placed), a fire was 
lighted, the blaze caught the materials of 
the nest, which were in such quantity that 
it was with the utmost difficulty the house 
could be preserved from the flames. 
In the islands of South Ronaldsha, 
Walls, &c. thev are said to breed in the 
holes of the rocks, in company with the 
Rock-Pigeons, Starlings, &c. 
The eggs of the Jackdaw are esteemed 
