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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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nch shore a specimen also occurred. A specimen of the Ivory Gull was shot on the 18th. or19th. of January, 1853, at Livermead, near Torquay, Devon-shire. In Yorkshire, one at Scarborough. One in Norfolkat Yarmouth. In Sussex one was shot at Hastings, in 1848.In Cornwall a specimen which had been seen on the 13th. ofFebruary, 1847, at Bar Point, Falmouth, was shot atPenzance the following Monday. In Scotland one, a female, was shot near Banff, Aberdeen-shire, on the 29th. of January, 1847; one, a young bird, inthe Firth of Clyde. In Ireland it has occurred on the west coast, near Tralee,one having been seen there in a field about four miles fromthe sea, by Thomas F. Neligan, Esq.; in allusion to which,Mr. Thompson in his Natural History of Ireland, states thatMr. K. Chute, in writing to him, supplied the followingsatisfactory information:—After the storm that occurred inthe beginning of February, 1847, there were several IvoryGulls about here; I heard of three being seen near Dingle;
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^ 4 lYORT GULL. 83 —one of them I saw myself. During my absence from home,two of them for a few days in succession alighted in my yard;my servant thought they were tame birds, and did notfrighten them. However, one was shot on the third day, andwhen I came home I found it to be an Ivory Gull in ratherimmature plumage: the other bird they said was pure white:—though frequently seen since, I was not able to procureit. I have the bird that was shot now in my collection. In Shetland one of these birds was obtained on the 13th.of December, 1822, at Balta Sound, by Laurence Edmonston,Esq. In Orkney one in 1832; a second was shot in the Bayof Firth, by Mr. Strang, during the winter of the same year;a third subsequently. These birds are generally seen out at sea, often in companywith the Fulmar, except of course during the breeding seasons. Some migrate southwards at the advance of winter. Parties numbering from thirty to fifty associate togetheron the open sea. Their flight is easy and g

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