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Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Identifier: cu31924000047815 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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FRINGILLINvE. 183
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THE CHAFFINCH. FRiNcfLLA ccELEBS, Linnaeus. The Chaffinch is a common and generally distributed species throughout the cultivated or wooded portions of the British Islands, especially in the north of England; it may even be found nesting in low bushes in some of the treeless Outer Hebrides, as well as the Orkneys, and also at a considerable elevation on the mountains of Scotland, where it is undoubtedly increasing. As yet it has not been recorded as breeding in the Shetlands, although it visits them, especially in October, and some birds remain for the winter. At that season large flocks arrive from the Continent on our east coast, while other bands, from the north of our island, spread themselves over the inland provinces. Owing to a partial and temporary separation of the sexes at this time, the name Calebs, or bachelor, was used by Linnaeus in reference to the deserted males. Mr. Barrington considers it the commonest passerine bird in Ireland. As a wanderer the Chaffinch has been obtained in the Faeroes, and in summer it occurs, in comparatively small numbers, nearly up to the North Cape; while south of the Arctic circle it is generally

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