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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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Titon, in the East-Riding.In Northumberland it is scarce, and in Cumberland. W. F.Wratislaw Bird, Esq. has written me word, that one of thesebuds, which, probably, as he remarks, had strayed from Ken- -X--
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;rOTTED WOODPECKEli. GEEAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 81 sington Gardens, where they are not uiifrequent, was observed,a few years since, early ui the morning, chmbing up the wallof a house near Cavendish Square, London. Was it making-its way to the Woods and Forests? In Scotland it sparingly occurs in Roxbui-ghshire and Dum-friesshire, and even farther north; and in the neighbourhoodof the Spey and the Dee. In the Orkney Islands, one wasshot near Scapa; another by Mr. Strang, on the 10th. ofSeptember, 1830; a young one was caught at Stronsay; andanother shot in the garden of Mr. Traill, of Woodwick, atKirkwall. For these particulars I am indebted to the verycomplete Historia Naturalis Orcadensis, published by W. B.Baikie, Esq., M.D., and Mr. Eobert Heddle, and very oblig-ingly forwarded to me by those gentlemen, for the use ofthis work. In Ireland, eleven specimens have been placed on record byWilliam Thompson, Esq., of Belfast, as having occurred invarious parts of the island. Mr. Selby co

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