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Title: The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Nelson, Thomas Hudson, d. 1916 Clarke, William Eagle, 1853-1938 Boyes, F
Subjects: Birds -- England Yorkshire
Publisher: London : A. Brown
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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m abouteast or north-east, in foggy weather being often so greatlyexhausted as to drop on the rocks, or on the sands, directlythey make the land. During the spring passage in 1901,there was a great influx at Redcar on the ist of May, withSiskins ; they came from due east, early in the morning,which was misty, with a light easterly breeze, and many wereseen sitting on the hedgerows and in the gardens ; in all prob-ability these birds were on their passage further northward. An exceptionally late nest, containing young, was reportedat Patrington on August 30th 1857. -^^ Redcar, in 1902,a pair of Greenfinches built a nest, and reared their youngbrood in a garden, close to the entrance gate, and within threefeet of the footpath. An instance of variation from the ordinary plumage isthat of a white example, seen near Bradford, on nth April1890 (Nat. 1890, p. 335), while specimens almost as yellowas canaries have occurred at Beverley. As regards varieties of the eggs, the late Canon Atkinson
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Greenfinchs Nest. R. For/line. See page i6.^. HAWFINCH. 165 mentioned a clutch at Danby, in 1863, of a warm shade ofwhite, resembhng the hue of Dippers or Sand Martins eggs. Of local names, Green Linnet and Green Lenny are general;Greeny is in use in Cleveland and the East Riding ; GreenGrosbeak was the name used byTunstall in 1783; Featherpokehas been noted at Newsome, near Huddersfield ; and Bigheadat Beverley. HAWFINCH. Coccothraustes vulgaris (Pallas). Resident, local ; breeds regularly in some parts. Greatly increasingin numbers and extending its northward range. The earliest Yorkshire reference to this species appearsto be in Leylands Halifax Catalogue, 1828, where it is statedto be very rare. Thomas Allis, in 1844, wrote of it thus :— Coccothraustes viUgavis.—Hawfinch—Is a rare winter visitant nearSheffield ; one or two have been taken near Halifax ; it occurs rarelyat Killingbeck near Leeds, and near York, as well as in the neigh-bourhood of Barnsley, and is very rare ab

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