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JACKDAWS. 
very midst of the world, it matters not to him. He seems 
to know neither care nor sorrow, — ever satisfied — always 
happy ! Who ever saw or heard of a moping, melancholy 
J ackdaw ? 
J ackdaw. 
We have in England another bird much resembling him 
in manners and colour, though from certain distinguishing 
features, such as a bent, orange-coloured beak and legs, &c., 
it has been placed in another division of birds. It is the 
Red-legged Crow or Chough, never seen in most parts of our 
island, though in its favourite haunts, in front of high preci- 
pices and steep rocks by the sea, often very abundant. Like 
Jackdaws, the Choughs are easily tamed, and are as enter- 
taining, and at the same time as troublesome when tamed. 
On a lawn, where five were kept, one particular part of 
it was found to turn brown, and exhibit all the appearance of 
a field suffering under severe drought, covered as it was with 
dead and withering tufts of grass, of which it was soon ascer- 
tained the Choughs were incessantly employed in tearing up 
