In England tho magpies have developed a taste lor live flesh. In Somersetshire recently it was found that driven by hunger during the severo weather magpies had resorted to tearing flesh from living cattle. One cow was found with a raw hole, the size of a goose egg, by the side of the root of the tail, and the birds had been industriously pecking holes in tlie flesh of other cows also.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1013, 31 July 1891, Page 23
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72Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 1013, 31 July 1891, Page 23
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