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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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^ other parts of thiscontinent, and is also known in Asia, in Siberia and India—in the latter widely distributed, and in Africa near the Capeof Good Hope, and no doubt in other districts also. In manyparts of England it has not unfrequently occurred. InYorkshire, principally in the West-Riding, and occasionallynear York. It is described by Jolm Hogg, Esq., in a papercommunicated by him to the British Association, at its sessionat York, in the year 1844, and since published in the Zool-ogist, as being a rare species and migratory in Cleveland.In the East-Riding, one was killed near Knapton by a boy,with a stick: it was at the time in the act of devouring arook. In Devonshire, it has been accustomed to breed in
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noBBT. 77 VVarleigli woods; in Essex, it has been met near Epping; inNorfolk, it occurs as a summer visitor, but the specimensobtained are, according to Jolm H. Gurney, Esq. and WilhaniR. Fisher, Esq., in their Catalogue of the Birds of Norfolk,published in the Zoologist, far from numerous, and generally. in immature plumage. The same gentlemen record that it\ occasionally breeds in that comity, and that an instance of) its doing so occurred at Brixley, near Norwich, in the sprinpj of 1844; and they mention that an immature specimen of theHobby was shot some years since v.hile sitting on a churchtower, in the centre of the city of Norwich. The occurrenceof this species at Yarmouth, so early as the month of February,is noticed at page 248 of the Zoologist. It has once been metwith in Dmham. In the Isle of Wight it is, says the Eev.C. Bury, in his Catalogue of the Birds of that island, occa-sionally seen, but he adds that he has not been able toascertai- that it has been kno\\Ti to bree

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