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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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vvaffhani Bulbeck, near Cambridge, in the month of August,1832. It was a young bird, and had therefore probably beenreared in the same neighbourhood. Since then Mr. J. E.Gray has observed others at Brighton, in Sussex; one wasobtained also near Durham, and another was caught on therigging of a ship five miles out at sea, off the coast ofNorfolk, in the early part of October, 1836; another waskilled on the North Denes, near Yarmouth, the 6th. ofNoveniber, 1843; one was shot in the parish of St. Clement,Cornwall, and Edward Hearle Rodd, Esq., of Penzance, saysin the ^Zoologist, page 3753, that this species frequents thatKeighbourhood, chiefly at Larrigan Valley, in greater or lessnumbers QWQry year about the beginning of December, andthat one was killed near Marazion in 1852. It has alsobeen met with in Sutherlandshire, by Mr. Bantock, the Dukeof Sutherlands gamekeeper. These birds frequent fir and other plantations, as well asalso larger trees. They too associate with the Titmice. They
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nUECBEST. 151 are said to be more pliv tlian the Goldcrests, and to goin smaller parties, more than six or seven, no djuhfc thefamily party, being seldom seen together. They are, likethem, remarkably restless, and brisk and quick in ail theirmotions, one moment intently engaged in the search forinsects, the next, as if on some secret signal, exeunt omnes.The male and female are 6aid to exhibit great attachmentto one another. They feed on the same kind of food as the other speeies,and the livelong day witnesses their ceaseless pursuit ot theinsects which infest the places where they therefore seek andfind them. The nest is built of moss, wool, and a few grasses, linedwith fur and feathers. It is suspended from the branch of afir or other tree. The eggs are said to be from five or six to eight or tenin number, and of a pale reddish yellow tint, minutelyspeckled with yellowish grey about the larger end, but theyvary in size and colour. Male; length, not quite four inches; bill, black, br

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