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Title: A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life
Year: 1731 (1730s)
Authors: Albin, Eleazar, fl. 1713-1759 Derham, W. (William), 1657-1735 Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London : Printed for the author and sold by William Innys in St. Paul's Church yard, John Clarke under the Royal-Exchange, Cornhill, and John Brindley at the King's Arms in New Bond-Street
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y, and elfe-where. In the Summer Time they abide in the Places mentioned, being bufy in breeding, and feedingtheir Young. In the beginning of Autumn they fly away, returning again the next Spring ;:whither they fly or where they fpend their Winter is not known. It is reported, that in the latter End of March, or Beginning of April, there come over firfl:fomeSpies or Harbingers, which fl;ay fome two or three Days, as it were to viev/ and fearch out thePlaces they ufed to breed in, to fee whether all be well ; which done they depart, and about thebeginning of May return again with the whole Troop of their Fellows ; but if the Seafon happento be ftormy, or tempelluous, and the Sea troubled, there are abundance of them found caft uponthe Shores, lean and perifhed with Famine ; for they cannot, unlefs the Sea be calm, either pro-ceed in their Journey, or filh for their living. In Auguft they all depart, nor are they feen anywhere about our Coafts till the next Spring, The If: !lh!:i.: i!ii
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Albin, Eleazar, fl. 1713-1759; Derham, W. (William), 1657-1735; Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI;

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