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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

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bourhoodof Windsor, and afterwards more recently by the Duke ofNorthumberland, and the Earl of Rochford; also by theMarquis of Hertford at Sudbourn, near Orford, in Suffolk,and by Lord Rendlesham, at Rendlesham, in the same neigh-bourhood. These have increased, and are now abundant uponDunmingworth Heath, and from Aldborough to Woodbridge,from whence they have spread over the adjoining counties.Some were turned out by the Marquis of Hastings, at Don-nington Park, Derbyshire, but a few seasons saw themextinguished. The Rev. T. Fowler, in two instances, has knownthese birds found upon the beach in an exhausted state, asif after a long flight. They have been met mth in Essex,near Colchester. In Yorkshire several are said to have beenshot near Doncaster. Some have made their appearance inRoger Wildrakes ^moist county of Lincoln; others nearRoyston, in Hertfordshire; and the species has been met withat Up^vay, near Weymouth, Dorsetshire. The Hon. Thomas Littleton Powys has written to me of
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RED-LEaOED PARTRIDGE. 221 the occurrence of but one of these birds in the neighbourhoodof Lilford, Northamptonshire, which, as he observes, con-sidering its abundance in Norfolk and Suffolk, is rather acurious circumstance. One was shot near Anglesea Abbey,Cambridgeshire, on the 11th. of September, 1S21; and othershave been met with in that county. A pair in 1S35 on theChiltern Hills, near Stokenchurch, Oxfordshire, where a coveyof six were found on the 21st. of September, 1848, by Mr.Willoughby Beauchamp. In Orkney several were introduced in late years. They frequent cultivated grounds, and especially hilly partswhere bushes and copsewood abound, but seem to give apreference to heaths, commons, and other waste lands. They are good, but not nearly so good to eat as the nativespecies. They have been known to breed in confinement.The male birds frequently fight in the spring of the year. They run very fast, and are not easily put up; and inthose parts of the country where they have beco

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