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turns at right angles frequently, so that you cannot reach 
the nest, or even see it.” He adds: “I obtained a young 
one, which I much regretted losing, as he promised to be 
very clever, and attached to me; he followed me very 
well, and seemed to have all the cunning of the magpie/’ 
Montague mentions an instance of a pair of Choughs 
which bred for many years in the ruins of Crow Castle, 
in the Yale of Llangollen ; and Temminck says that they 
breed on trees, though rarely. 
The nest is composed outwardly of sticks, succeeded 
by a quantity of roots and dry grass, lined with very 
fine roots, grass, and wool. 
The eggs of this species are easily known from those of 
any of our crow-kind; they are most like those of the 
magpie, from which they differ in their greater size and 
more ochreous colouring. Fig. 1 is, I think, the most 
characteristic egg. Fig. 2 is unusually crowded with spots; 
it is from the collection of Mr. Bond. 
