. British birds in their haunts. Birds. THE JACKDAW. 257 trees in close proximity to rookeries, they are neither courted nor persecuted; they come when they like and go away when they please. On the other hand, no one, I believe, ever saw a flock of Eooks making the first advances towards an intimacy with a flock of Jackdaw^s, or heard of their condescending to colonize a giove, because their grey-headed relatives were located in the neighbour- hood. On the sea-coast, where Rooks arc only casual. THE JACKDAW. visitors, the Jackdaw has no oppoitunity of hauging himself on as an appendage to a r
. British birds in their haunts. Birds. THE JACKDAW. 257 trees in close proximity to rookeries, they are neither courted nor persecuted; they come when they like and go away when they please. On the other hand, no one, I believe, ever saw a flock of Eooks making the first advances towards an intimacy with a flock of Jackdaw^s, or heard of their condescending to colonize a giove, because their grey-headed relatives were located in the neighbour- hood. On the sea-coast, where Rooks arc only casual. THE JACKDAW. visitors, the Jackdaw has no oppoitunity of hauging himself on as an appendage to a rooivery, but even here he must be a client. With the choice of a long range of cliff before him, he avoids that which he might have all to himself, and selects a portion which, either because it is sheltered from storms, or inaccessible by climbers, has been already appropriated by Sea-mews. The object of the Jackdaw in making church-towers its. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
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