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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

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tley; another was shotat High Carton, near York, one seen by Arthur Strickland,Esq., neaj- )>\ivlii!gton, and one taken near Scarborough. Itis tlie most, ))lontirul in the Eastern Counties. In Cam-bridireshir,, a few individuals of this species visit the plantationsin the neighbnurliood of Bottisham, every spring, and it hasalso been noticed at Stretchwood and Wood-Ditton. InNorfolk, it is pretty common in the summer; as also inEssex and Sulfolk. In Kent, where it is the most plentiful,I have seen it in the neighbourhood of Sittingbourne. Afew occur in Dorsetshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall; and onehas also been observed in Northumberland, in the autumn—namely, on l^restwick Car, in September, 1794, as recordedby Bewick. 1homas Eyton, Esq., of Eyton, says that it isfound in Shropshire All round the Wrekin. It has alsobeen observed in Lancasliire, and even in Cumberland. In Scotland, Charles St. John, Esq has twice seen a pairin Morayshire, in the autumn. Sir William Jardine, Bart.
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D TITT^TLE DOTE. 17»^ shot one in the garden of Jardine Hall, Dumfriesshr?, andanother was shot in Perthshi j, so late as the 20th. ofOctober, in the year 1834?. Two also in Aberdeenshire, onenear Old Aberdeen, in Aui^ust, in 1S49, and the other inSeptember, ISoL, both of them younir birds. In Oikney onewas shot many years since, by Mr. Strang; another atDeernen, nea.** Kirkwall; and one in Holm, in 1850. Witli us they are mi^^rafory, arrivmg in the spring thelatter end of A))ril, and departing the end of August orSeptember. Tlie males arrive before the females, and theyappear to pair only for the season. They go in small flocks of some twenty in number,frequenting the open fields when feeding, and at other timesresorting to woods. On their first arrival they are not shy,and may be easily approached; but when the nest is begun^and afterwards, tliey bccom.e gradually more and more so.They frefjuent wooded districts, both hilly and flat. Theymay be kei)t in continenient, but in that st

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