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friend. All birds, we know, have an instinctive 
faculty of finding their way, when on the wing, to 
certain spots they have been accustomed to frequent, 
in which it might be supposed that eye-sight, from 
high elevation, might materially assist them ; but, in 
the following case, it will be seen that the inhabitants 
of the air are not in all cases indebted to this sense for 
discovering their former abodes, but can, like dogs 
and various other quadrupeds, and even turtles, as 
we have before remarked, find their way by some 
unknown faculty, to places from which they have 
been removed. About five years ago, a gentleman, 
near Chapel-le-Frith, in Derbyshire, took a young 
Raven from its nest, and kept it in an out-building 
for a few months; its wings were then clipped, and it 
was allowed to go at large. It soon became well 
known for a mile round, regularly visiting every farm- 
house within that distance whenever a pig was killed, 
when it was always rewarded with some tit-bits. 
Soon after the death of its owner, about three years 
ago, the Raven was given to a surgeon, resident in 
Stockport, Cheshire, who kept it chained by the leg 
for about twelve months ; he then gave it its liberty, 
and, as before, it wandered about near home, but 
not with the same success, for its thigh was one day 
broken by some idle, thoughtless boys, who threw 
stones at it. The fracture was reduced, the Raven 
recovered, and then again took to rambling about 
for a few weeks, when it disappeared altogether, and 
was supposed to have met with an untimely end; — 
when, about a fortnight after it had been missed, 
the news arrived of its safe return to its old 
residence at Chapel-le-Frith, distant fourteen miles, 
