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In a note received from the Rev. G. 
Glover, relating to this species, he ob- 
serves, "that the sea coast has great at- 
traction for them, though they are not 
often seen in any very considerable num- 
bers on the beach. A very numerous 
colony of Rooks, inhabiting the woods at 
Gunton, which is about four miles distant 
from the sea, I have carefully marked for 
twelve years, uniformly returning home a 
few minutes before sun-set, from the same 
point of destination, viz. the coast, and 
making the church of South-Repps the 
land mark by which they steered. What 
has much surprised me is, that this course 
has been continued through the very 
height of the breeding-season, as well as 
at other times, though in diminished num- 
bers; and that the only interruption to it 
has been during the very severe days of 
winter, when they were driven by that 
necessity which acknowledges neither rule 
nor law, to seek their subsistence in farm 
yards, or to plunder the corn stacks in the 
fields. ,, 
