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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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ut beregarded with new attention. It is found in Europe—in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, andthe temperate parts of E^ussia, and throughout the whole ofthe southern parts of the continent—France, Germany, Greece,Switzerland, Spain, and Italy, to the shores of the Mediter-ranean. It occurs also in Asia Minor. In Yorkshire, this is one of the most common of thesummer visitants, as also in various other counties—Suffolk,Norfolk, Dorset, Devon, Northumberland, Wilts., Hants.,Somerset, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex, Kent, and Gloucester-shire; in Cornwall, it is more rare as you advance westwards,but one has been killed at Scilly, as recorded by EdwardHearle Rodd, Esq., in the Zoologist, page 3276: it alsooccurs in Wales. In Scotland it travels even to Sutherland-:-hire, Rosshire, Morayshire, and Aberdeenshire; and in Irelandis more or less plentiful throughout the island. It occasionally visits Orkney in the summer, and has beenobserved once or twice in Sanday, but is not known to breedthere.
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W.HINCHAT. WHIXCHAT. 67 It has been met with by Eobert Gray, Esq., of South croft,Govan, Glasgow, near Dunbar, in the end of December; alsoby Mr. H. Barlow, of Cambndge, in the mild winter of1*833, and one was found dead by the Rey. Robert Holds-worth, of Rrixham, at the entrance of the River Dart, inDevonshire, during a yery severe frost, on January the 20th.,1829: one has also been seen in Xorfolk in the winter. Inthe neighbourhood of Southampton, Mr. William D. Ealshawwrites in The Naturalist, old series, volume ii., pag^e 234,that some remain throughout the year, and that White ofSelborne, in his Natural History of that place, Letter xxv.,to the Hon. Daines Barrington, makes a similar assv^rtion;Bewick does so also. The Whinchat is found in a variety of situations, not onlyon *the wildest waste sae black and bare and tho^e whichare uncultivated, where the thorny shrub which has beenappropriated to its name blooms and blossoms, but alsoamong pasture fields, on whose hedges it may b

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