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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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ce on to the United States. In Cornwall one was taken in May 1828, near Polperro,and two remained near Looe the whole of that summer.They are not uncommon on that coast in winter. Two wereseen off East Looe on the 25th. of October, 1852, and one,no doubt of the same pair, a female, was shot on the 8th. ofNovember. In the following year, in the month of December,they were unusually abundant in that locality, ten or adozen being not unfrequently seen at a time, and in oneinstance upwards of thirty. Several were seen in PlymouthSound in December, 1850, and two of them were shot. One,a male, was obtained in Carrack Road, Falmouth, in March,1845, and another in January, 1846; one in Gwyllyn VaseBay, in December, 1847; and on the 28th. of December,1848, two others were seen there. One has visited the bayevery year for several years in May. Near Penzance in likemanner they have occurred—one in October, 1844; two inOctober, 1849. They are met with in the immature plumage ii,f;yM!iiif (<\
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l$fm GREAT XORTHERN DIYER. 129 on tlie Hampshire coast in the winter months not ver)^ rarely.One was seen close to Haslar in March, 1853; and another,as I am informed by the Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, wasfound in the New Forest, near Fordingbridge, Hampshire, inJanuary. 1851. It attacked the man who found it in afierce manner. One, in immature plumage, in the possession of Mr. Chaffey,of Dodington, Kent, was killed near Sheerness about theyear 181:2. Others near Maidenhead and Pangbourne, Berk-shire, in 1794, and near ISTewbury in 1810. One, a youno-bird, of which Horace Waddington, Esq., of UniversityCollege, Oxford, has written me word, on the Isis, betweenGodstowe and that city. Another was found in a garden atHeadington Hill, near Oxford, one morning, after a remarkablystormy night, in October, 1821. In the county of ISTottingham specimens occasionally occuron the Trent. In Buckinghamshire a young specimen wasfound alive in a deep ditch at Risborough, on the 9th. ofMay, 1850. It

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