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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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d license to follow your game when struck, but 1 must not forget that I am now holding the pen and no other implement, and must guide, and notbe guided by, the grey goose wing. I will only say that,as a magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire, I have alwaysfelt that a poacher, if not a really bad character, was notnecessarily a being so utterly depraved, as to be deserving ofnothing but to be prosecuted with the ^utmost rigour of thelaw. The Pheasant, though not strictly speaking one of our nativebirds, having been introduced formerly—it is supposed, asimported by its names, from the banks of the Eiver Phasis,in Colchis, in Asia—yet, as now and long since naturalizedamong us, claims and receives a place accordingly in everynatural history. This splendid bird is plentiful in a great part of Europe—the north excepted, and in Asia, from the shores of the BlackSea to Tartary, Persia, the East Indies, China, and its northernregion, the formerly famous and marvellous Cathay. It is
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