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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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DIOUS WILLOW WABBLER. an idea of its power and melody, in which resipeets it is onljequalled by those of the Blackcap and Nightingale. Mr. Grould also mentions that it builds on trees, as well asat times in shrubs in gardens. The eggs are five in number, of a reddish white colour,blotted with spots of darker red. Male; bill, yellowish brown; between it and the eye is asmall patch of yellow; iris, dark brown; head on the crown,neck on the back, and nape, greenish ash-colour; throat andbreast, pale yellow; back, greenish ash-colour. Primaries,secondaries, and tertiaries, brown, the edge of each featherbeing lighter; tail, brown, the edges of each feather hghter.Le2s and toes, yellowish brown. W. F. Wrati-law Bird, Esq., to whom this work is muchindebted for valuable information and assistance, always accordedin the most ready, handsome, and courteous manner, and inthe true spirit of the love of science, has forwarded a foreignskin of this species, from which the plate has been coloured.
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125 CHIFF CHAFF. LESSEE PETTTCHAPS. LEA.ST WILLOW WEE:N. SyJvra rufa, 310tacilla h ippolaisy Sytvia hippolu-S, Temminck.Montagu.Latham. Jenyns. Selby. Sylvia. Sylva—A wood. Wppnlah—A bird called the Hedge Spar^u^v. This diminutive bird extends in its European range as faras Xorway in the summer, remaining through the winter insome of the southern parts of the Continent. It is commonin France, G-ermany, and Italy, and especially in Holland,and has been observed also in Asia Minor. Specimens killedin the more southern parts are said to have the yellow tintsmuch more brilliant than those obtained farther north. It is met with throughout England, from Sussex, Essex,Suffolk, Xorfolk, Derbyshire, and Worcestershire, to Cornwall,Westmoreland, Durham, and Northumberland. In Yorkshireit is common enough in most parts, but appears to be ratherscarce in the neighbourhood of Halifax, Huddersfield, andHebden Bridge. Xear Falmouth it is uncommon: Mr. Mayshot one on the 12th. of December, 18^9,

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