. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . ed; it hath a Creft on the hinder part of the Head hanging down;the Body, Wings and Tail are of a dark green, with a Shade of Purple;the Legs and Feet of the Colour of the Bill; they build for the moftpart in high Walls of demolifhed or ruinous Towers, which are com-man mSwitzerla7jd; they fly very high; they lay two or three Eggs; theYoung fly about the beginning of June, and if taken before they canfly are eafily fed and made tame, fo as to fly out into the Fields andreturn of
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . ed; it hath a Creft on the hinder part of the Head hanging down;the Body, Wings and Tail are of a dark green, with a Shade of Purple;the Legs and Feet of the Colour of the Bill; they build for the moftpart in high Walls of demolifhed or ruinous Towers, which are com-man mSwitzerla7jd; they fly very high; they lay two or three Eggs; theYoung fly about the beginning of June, and if taken before they canfly are eafily fed and made tame, fo as to fly out into the Fields andreturn of their own accord. The young ones are commended for goodMeat, and counted a Dainty; their Flefli is fweet and their Bones ten-der. Thofe that take them out of the Nefts, are wont to leave one ineach, that they may the more willingly return the following Year. They are called in Switzerland Waldrapp.^ and Steinrapp^ that isWood-Crows, becaufe they delight to live in woody, mountainous, anddefert Places; where they build in Rocks and old forlaken Bird I had out of the Collection of Sir Thomas The
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