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Title: A history of British birds. By the Rev. F.O. Morris ..
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Italy, and Holland. It belongs too to some parts of Asia—Japan, according toTemminck, Siberia, and the neighbourhood of the CaspianSea; and likewise to America, moving, at the different seasonsof the year, to and from the regions within the Arctic circleand the United States, through the Fur Countries. They breed in Tornea Lapland, or Lapmark, a province ofSweden; also in Iceland. In this country they have occurred in greater or lessnumbers in Northumberland, Durham, Norfolk, Suffolk, Kent,Hampshire, Sussex, Cambridgeshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall;in fact, no doubt, though they have made no matches here,they belong to All England. Meyer mentions one shot byhim in February, 1847, on the Thames, near London. In Ireland, also, and in Wales, as likewise in Scotland,where Sir William Jardine has met with it in Dumfriesshire,and in the market at Edinburgh. They frequent marshes and morasses, ponds, and otherdamp and watery places. This species is occasionally seen in Northamptonshire, as
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WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. 129 the Hon. T. L. Powys tells me. It used to be a wintervisitor to the fens in Cambridgeshire, varying in numbersaccording to the comparative mildness or severity of theseason. In Norfolk several occurred near Lynn, towards theend of January, 1852. They were unusually common therein the beginning of 1854, and are met with annually inthe spring and winter. Breydon, near Yarmouth, is also alocality. Specimens are procured near Doncaster and Sheffieldin severe weather, and considerable numbers occasionally aboutSutton-on-Derwent, near York, though by no means as regularvisitants. They are not uncommon at Walton Park, andone was met with near Barnsley: in hard winters someoccur near Burlington. In Cornwall six were seen on Looe Eiver, Helford, December19th., 1819, and two shot on the 26th. of the same month.In Derbyshire, individuals have occurred by the Trent, inhard weather. The like remark has to be made of Oxfordshire,where small flocks are occasionally seen, but

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