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4. THE NATURAL HISTORY 
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OOKS are gregarious, (that is, they live 
R together in numbers.) ‘They very much re-_ 
femble Crows, but the bill of the Rook is generally 
pare of feathers as far as the eyes; becaufe it is free 
quently thruft into the ground to pick out grubs 
and earth-worms. — Its feathers are more glofly 
than the Crow’s, and it is a much more innocent 
bird, for it lives moftly on grain and infects. | 
Rooks build in woods and forefts, and frequent- | 
ly in groves near houfes. + 
“When once a certain number have agreed to 
live together, they do not fuffer any ftrange 
Rooks to ‘come amongft them. Early in the 
{pring they meet together in their grove which | 
they had forfaken in the winter, having left only 
five or fix of their company, perhaps to prevent 
others from coming there. _ 4 
They then keep together in pairs. ‘T’he old 
Rooks, who built there laft year, go to their old 
nefts, which only want a little mending ; but 
the young ones of the laft year have to fix upol) 
“a proper fituation, about which they are vélj 
nice ; 
