. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . faintly spotted with brown. Mr Pennant ob-serves, that the young ones continue with their parentstill the following spring, when they separate to form newpairs. Birds of this species live on acorns, nuts, seeds, andvarious kinds of fruits; they will eat eggs, and some-times destroy young birds in the absence of the old kept in a domestic state they may be renderedvery familiar, and will imitate a variety of words andsounds. We have heard one imitate the sound made bythe a6lion of a saw so exa(Stly, that though it was on aS
. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . faintly spotted with brown. Mr Pennant ob-serves, that the young ones continue with their parentstill the following spring, when they separate to form newpairs. Birds of this species live on acorns, nuts, seeds, andvarious kinds of fruits; they will eat eggs, and some-times destroy young birds in the absence of the old kept in a domestic state they may be renderedvery familiar, and will imitate a variety of words andsounds. We have heard one imitate the sound made bythe a6lion of a saw so exa(Stly, that though it was on aSunday, we could hardly be persuaded that the personwho kept it had not a carpenter at work in the , at the approach of cattle, had learned to hounda cur dog upon them, by whistling and calling upon himby his name : at last, during a severe frost, the dog was,by that means, excited to attack a cow big with calf,when the poor animal fell on the ice, and was muchhurt: the Jay was complained of as a nuisance, and itsowner was obliged to destroy 114. BRITISH BIRDS.
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