...But had not your lordship come just in the nick,I would have made him disgorge his winnings, and taught himthe difference between a rook and a jackdaw...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
...CORVIDAE (5), CROWS, Rook, Raven, Jackdaw,Magpie (Br...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
...The old rook was simply expressing the old truth, that life was worth living...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
... the Rook insome green rookery of the Old World...
Various 「Birds Illustrated by Color Photograph [April, 1897]」
...They have also been observed to chase and kill small birds, which,as near starvation as themselves, have been unable to fly beyondtheir reach, and I have even seen a Rook catch a small fish...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...Individually the rook is stamped unmistakablyby the bald patch on the face, where thefeathers have come away round the base ofthe beak...
Frederick G. Aflalo 「Birds in the Calendar」
...An occasionalcrow visits my estuary at low tide, but,though the bird would be a match for anysingle rook, I never saw any fighting betweenthem...
Frederick G. Aflalo 「Birds in the Calendar」
...On the one hand, it seems undeniablethat the rook eats grain and potatoshoots...
Frederick G. Aflalo 「Birds in the Calendar」
...The rook is gregarious, in which particular it differs fromthe Carrion Crow which lives in pairs...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...Further differencesare found in the feathering of the head and neck of thesebirds, that of the crow being much more completely coveredthan that of the rook...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...It is only when the rook in his turn gets too numerous thathe needs a similar check...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...Bernard has described the interesting way in which the Rook hunts voles or field-mice in Thuringia...
Frédéric Houssay 「The Industries of Animals」
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