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smith gives a very interesting account of it in the Temple Gardens, 
London, as observed by himself. A most graphic description of 
its manner of life about Selborne is furnished by White. Sir Wm. 
Jardine introduces it in a picturesque manner as an adjunct to 
the scenery of the park. Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, in one of his 
series of very interesting papers on Scottish Livers, published in 
Tail's Magazine, * — that on the Tyne — gives in connection with 
Ormiston Hall, a full account of the proceedings of a colony of 
rooks, “ from mom to latest eve and Mr. Macgillivray,, as if 
conceiving that the subject of the bird's habits by day had already 
been exhausted, imparts a new feature to the history of the species, 
by visiting a rookery at night, and relating the proceedings at 
that period. 
THE JACKDAW. 
Corvus monedula , Linn. 
Is found throughout the island, especially where the 
labour of man is evinced by buildings, the planta- 
tion of trees, and the cultivation of the ground. 
But it is much more interesting to meet with this bird in the bold 
and precipitous cliffs, — be they inland or marine, — which are its 
natural abode. 
The basaltic precipices of the north-east of Ireland are much 
resorted to by these birds, as building haunts. I have also ob- 
served them in the month of October, of different years, at the 
approach of evening, to gather in as great numbers as during sum- 
mer, to roost among the rocks at the Cavehill, near Belfast. At the 
wild peninsula of the Horn, county of Donegal, they breed in the 
marine cliffs, as they do within caverns of very small islands about 
three miles distant from the coast of Kerry (Neligan). On the 
29th of May, 1836, I saw many jackdaws at the precipitous 
sandy banks rising above the beach of Lough Neagh, at Massa- 
reene deer-park, where they breed in holes, all of which were said 
by the gamekeeper to be the deserted burrows of rabbits. Jack- 
* February, 1848, p. 98. 
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