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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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Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. In Asia,of Siberia, Syria, Armenia, and Arabia. In America, ofGreenland and the shores of Baffins Bay and Davis Straits.In Africa, it is found in Egypt and along the northernshores. Many things, and many words expressive or descriptive ofthings, seem strange when first observed or first lieard, butuse soon reconciles the eye, the ear, or the mind to them,and they quickly lose their novelty, and are then no longerthought of or remarked. In Barring Out the name of Archers,the partizans of Archer, seems almost a matter of course; theGreybeards, the followers of De Grey, soon appear equallyas it were of necessity so designated; but Fishers Why not!I and my nine Fishermen being later in the field, jars uponthe ear at first, and seems for a time to want the prestigewhich the others have. Thus a Rookery is to all an accustomedword, but to some a Gullery is not. The reason just touchedupon is, however, the only one why both are not Familiar A> iv- ^ AVv LA.
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U!j)/^il;:!/ BLACK-HEADED GULL. 69 in our ears as household words, the one as much so as theother: there are several Gulleries, places so called where theseGulls breed, and I proceed to enumerate the principal of them. A famous resort for these birds is Twigmoor, near GlandfordBrigg, in Lincolnshire, the estate of Sir John Nelthorpe,Bart., where as many as from ten to twenty thousand maybe seen in the breeding-season. Dr. Plot, in his History of Staffordshire, gives a curious,not to say strange or marvellous, account of their annualvisit to that county, for a copy of which, as follows, I amindebted to Thomas George Bonney, Esq., of ChurchdaleHouse, near E-ugeley:— But the strangest whole-footed water-fowle that frequentsthis county is the Larus cinereus, Ornithologi, the Laruscinereus tertius, Aldrovandi, and the Cepphus of Gesner andTurner; in some counties called the Black-cap, in others theSea or Mire Crow; here the Pewit; which being of themigratory kind, come annually to certai

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