BRITISH BIRDS, 2/ 
proach of winter, and i$ met with in all the inter- 
mediate low countries, between the Ferro Ifles and 
the Cape of Good Hope. It is faid that they were 
formerly numerous on the marfhes of Sevenhuys, 
near Leyden in Holland. In England they are 
rare vihtants : Pennant mentions that a flock of 
them migrated into the marfhes near Yarmouth in 
April, 1774. 
Like the Rooks and the Herons, they build their 
nefts on the tops of large trees, lay three or four 
eggs, the fize of thofe of a hen, of a white colour 
fprinkled with pale red, and are very noify during 
the breeding feafon. The inteflines are defcribed 
as being very long, and the trachea arteria is like 
that of the Crane, and makes a double inflexion in 
the thorax. 
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