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Inthe winter they mix with the Rooks, and are 
often feen perching on the backs of Sheep and 
Pigs to eat the infects there. 
When they pair, they do not, like Rooks, build 
neat one another, but each pair has for itfelf a 
compafs of near a mile. 
They are fometimes taken by naughty boys, | 
who twift pieces of paper in the form of cones, 
or fugar loaf papers. “Towards the bottom they 
put a piece of meat, and fpread bird-lime all 
round the infide of the cone near the edge. They 
then make little holes in the ground, and place 
thefe papers with the point downwards. ‘The 
Crows fly down when they fmel]l the meat, and 
put their beaks into the paper to take it out; the 
bird-lime fticks the cone to the feathers round their 
necks, fo that it covers their eyes: and the poor 
crows, not being able to fee, fly about, fome 
ftraight up very high, others againft trees and 
buildings, where they hurt themfelves. Little 
boys do not perhaps confider this, for we would 
hope they could not intend to be fo cruel. 
Crows feed upon infects, worms, grain, and 
fruits ; they break nuts by letting them fall out 
of their beaks from a great height upon a ftone, 
! 
and then pick up the kernel. 
FRUCL 
