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BRITISH BIRDS. 
fence of the old ones. When kept in a domeflic 
hate they may be rendered very familiar, and will 
imitate a variety of words and founds. We have 
heard one imitate fo exactly the found made by the 
adlion of a faw, that, tho 1 it was on a Sunday, we 
could hardly be perfuaded but that the perfon who 
kept it had a carpenter at work in the houfe. — A 
Jay, kept by a perfon we were acquainted with, at 
the approach of cattle, had learned to hound a cur 
dog upon them, by whiffling and calling upon him. 
by his name ; at laff, during a fevere frofl, the dog 
was, by that means, excited to attack a cow big 
with calf, when the poor animal fell on the ice 
and was much hurt. The Jay being complained 
of as a nuifance, its owner was obliged to deflroy 
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