. An illustrated manual of British birds . rom the old BotanicGarden by the Jackdaws ; no less than eighteen dozen being dis-covered in one chimney. The food consists chiefly of insects andtheir larva;, worms, and the parasites found on sheep, upon the backsof which the bird may often be seen perched. The flight is rapidbut wavering, numerous evolutions being pertbrmed in the air to theaccompaniment of a short clear note, sounding like cae. Althoughit generally flies in pairs the Jackdaw is at all times more or lessgregarious, but especially so in winter. The adult male has the lores and crown
. An illustrated manual of British birds . rom the old BotanicGarden by the Jackdaws ; no less than eighteen dozen being dis-covered in one chimney. The food consists chiefly of insects andtheir larva;, worms, and the parasites found on sheep, upon the backsof which the bird may often be seen perched. The flight is rapidbut wavering, numerous evolutions being pertbrmed in the air to theaccompaniment of a short clear note, sounding like cae. Althoughit generally flies in pairs the Jackdaw is at all times more or lessgregarious, but especially so in winter. The adult male has the lores and crown of the head glossypurplish-black; ear-coverts, nape and sides of the neck grey, in-clining to white, and producing the effect of a collar ; rest of theupper parts glossy black; under parts dusky-black ; bill, legs and feetblack. Length about i3in.; wing 9*25 in. The female is some-what smaller and the grey collar is less defined. The young aredull black, with very little grey on the head and nape. The iris iswhite at all as;es. THE CORAX, Linnaeus. Although a diminishing species, in consequence of the hatred en-tertained for it by sheep-farmers and the ease with which it can betrapped, the Raven still maintains itself in the British Islands. Inthe south its numbers are chiefly kept down by the prices paid foryoung birds ; but even now, from Kent to Cornwall, and along therocky coasts of North Devon and Wales there is hardly a suitableheadland in or near which a pair does not at least attempt to breedannually; nests built in , although far rarer than formerly, beingless uncommon than might be supposed at short distances long ago several pairs bred in Essex; but in the easterncounties and throughout the interior of England the Raven is nowrare. On the hills and fells of the north and west it is still to befound ; while in Scotland, and especially in the islands, it is by nomeans uncommon where there are suitable cliffs for its protection.
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