go «6 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
When the Jay perceives a Fox, he cries out, and 
-a great number of Jays immediately come to him, 
and endeavour to frighten the Fox with their noife, 
Like the Rook and the Magpie, he hoards that 
-f90d which he does not immediately want to eat, 
and fometimes forgets where ‘he has left it. T’he 
‘nuts that he has buried in this manner begin to 
grow in the fpring. 
There is one kind of Jay that has red eyes, 
and its feathers are almoft white. 
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TRE MAGPIE, 
FPAHE Magpie’s bill is very much like the. 
Butcher Bird’s, for it has a fharp procefs 
(or notch) near the end of the upper mandible. 
He lives upon worms, and infects, and {mall birds, ~ 
-and carrion. If he meet with a lark that is 
wounded, or a Chicken at a diftance from the 
Hen, he is fure to kill and eat them. 
Magpies frequently perch upon ‘the back of 
cows and fheep, and eat any little infects: that 
breed there. They feck for the nefts of little. 
birds, and very often fuck their eggs. 
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