March 18, 1775

Posted by sydney on Mar 18th, 1775

Adoxa moschatellina.  The twigs which the rooks drop in building supply the poor with brush-wood to light their fires*.  Some unhappy pairs are not permitted to finish any nest ’til the rest have compleated yir building; as soon as they get a few sticks together a party comes & demolishes the whole.  As soon as rooks have finished their nests, & before they lay, the cocks begin the feed the hens, who receive their bounty with a fondling tremulous voice & fluttering wings, & all the little blandishments that are expressed by the young while in a helpless state.  This gallant deportment of the males is continued thro’ the whole season of incubation.  Theses birds do not copulate on trees, nor in their nests, but on the ground in open fields.

*Thus did the ravens supply the prophet with necessaries in the wilderness.

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