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Updated: June 12, 2025
"See! there are a great many Crows on that sandbar! They are picking up mussels! Some are bigger than others!" said Rap, who had been taking a look through the field-glass. "Are the small ones the females, or are there two kinds of Crows?" "There are several kinds of Crows in the United States, besides Ravens and Magpies, who are cousins to the Crow.
The Muses then, having turned the presumptuous maidens into chattering magpies, first took the name of Pi-er'i-des, from Pieria, their natal region. Attica.
"Have we used up all the Blackbird family?" asked Dodo, as they sat on the sand and began to dig holes with their hands. "Oh, no; there is the biggest of all the Crow," said Nat. "Strange as it is," replied the Doctor, "though the Crow is the blackest of all our birds he does not belong to the Blackbird family, but to a separate one of his own the family of Crows, Jays, and Magpies."
We should be sorry to see the old rookery in the garden diminished in the slightest degree. Jays and magpies are terribly numerous; they are rare egg-stealers. We have seen as many as twelve of the latter lately flying all together. Magpies are difficult to get at; they will sit perched upon the topmost twigs of the trees, but will invariably fly away before you get within shot.
The birds which remained were ravens, magpies, partridges, crossbills and woodpeckers. In this universal stillness the residents at a post feel little disposed to wander abroad except when called forth by their occupations; and as ours were of a kind best performed in a warm room we imperceptibly acquired a sedentary habit.
"Ha, ha!" laughed Mercer; "he calls himself a gardener because he comes here to help dig, but I know: he's a poacher, that's what he is. You ask Hopley." "But I don't know Hopley," I said, laughing. "You soon will. He's General Rye's keeper. I buy birds off him to stuff." "What, geese?" I said, as I recalled that my companion spoke about a goose just before. "Geese? no. Magpies and jays and hawks.
The spiteful magpies, that seemed to be the only inhabitants of this dreary waste, danced about in front of them, chattering and almost laughing at them, as if rejoicing in and making fun of their miseries.
It was all so jolly, the black crows, the magpies which screamed at them from the thorn-bushes, and the rime which suddenly dropped from the trees, right on to their heads. It was three miles to the forest, but Ditte was used to much longer distances, and counted this as nothing.
Yonder the magpies fluttered over the beans among which they are always searching in spring; blackbirds, too, are fond of a beanfield. Time advanced again, and afar on the slope bright yellow mustard flowered, a hill of yellow behind the elms. The luxuriant purple of trifolium, acres of rich colour, glowed in the sunlight.
They all sailed merrily across the sea chattering like a flock of magpies, or singing their favourite songs. And when they reached the shore, what an unpacking there was! For this was a noted fishing ground, and here they would live, in little wooden huts, till autumn and bad weather came round again.
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