OF BIRD Sint . h- 
tn the winter they mix with the Robie’ and are 
often feen perching on the backs of Sheep and 
Pigs to eat the infeéts there. 3 
When they pair, they do not, like Rooks, build 
near one another, but each pair has for oe 
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 edze. They 
then make little holes in the eround, and place 
‘thefe papers with the point downwards. The 
Crows fly down when they fmell 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 
-erows, not being able to fee, fy about, fome — 
ftraight up very high, others againft trecs and 
buildings, where they hurt themfelves. Little 
2 boys do not perhaps confider this, for we would 
hope they could not intend to be fo cruel. 
Crows feed upon infets, 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, | 
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FRUGI. 
