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Title: Birds I have kept in years gone by : with original anecdotes and full directions for keeping them successfully
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Greene, William Thomas
Subjects: Cage birds
Publisher: London : L. Upcott Gill
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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young brood successfully, and thenbrought up a family of her own. The tamed Magpie is very hardy, and will live for a numberof years, if he has his liberty, without forsaking those whoare kind to him: but a Magpie in a cage is a poor-lookingthing, bedraggled and dirty, and when hopping about withhis wing cut, he presents a more forlorn appearance still.Moral: keep silver spoons and jewellery out of his reach. CHAPTER XXI. THE JACKDAW. IOXCE had a Jackdaw, but only for a very short time,and, indeed, there is some doubt whether he was reallymine at all, so I cannot say a great deal about the bird,except that it is even more easily and more perfectly tamedthan the Magpie; though far from being as handsome a bird,it is a general favourite with schoolboys, learning to say afew words, and to come and go at command. Apropos of this bird I recollect reading somewhere a rathercurious story. Two boys determined to rob the nest of aJackdaw that had built upon some projection outside the highest
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THE J A C K D xV W. The Jachdavj. 81 part of a church tower, and in order to reach it, one of themhad to walk on a plank thrust out of the window, and sup-ported by his companion inside. The nest was reached, and the young birds, five in number,were placed in the breast of the youthful adventurer, whowas about to return, when the other boy said that he musthave three of them. Tsio, replied he on the plank; Illgive you two. If you dont give me three, Ill drop you.I shant. Whereupon the young rascal actually let go theplank, and the boy with the birds fell to the ground, a distanceof some sixty feet, unhurt, and on reaching terra firmd, ranaway shouting: Now I shall keep them all! He wore a stout smock frock, and the wind getting underit, converted it into a parachute, and so saved his life. Corvus mon&dida, the latter term supposed to be from tnonere,to advise, in consequence of these birds being looked uponas of bad omen in the science of augury, the Jackdaw, leChocas of Baffon, d

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