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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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th December1831 ; another was found dead on Sutton Common, near Doncaster ;three or four were found some winters ago near York, at which timethey had been met with over most of the midland counties ; veryrare near Leeds ; a specimen was found at Halifax a few years ago ;this, as well as several of the tribe, is often attracted by the light atnight, where they remain till exhausted. When winter gales sweep across the North Sea, the Fork-tailed Petrel, though an ocean-loving bird, is compelledto seek shelter near the land, being sometimes driven by thefury of the storm on to the beach, or even into countrydistricts far removed from the seaboard. An opinion hasbeen expressed that, as it is a western species, it is blownacross from the Western Sea, though I have met with it moreoften in north-east gales than at other times. The earliestdate on which it has appeared, so far as I am aware, is 17thSeptember in the year 1903, when a female bird, now in mypossession, was shot at the Teesmouth.
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Nest of Great Crested Grebe, Hornsea Mere. Ix. Fori line. See page 738. LEACHS FORK-TAILED PETREL. 75i It is an autumn or winter visitant, in very limited numbers,and not at all regular in its appearance. Thomas Allis,in Loudons Magazine for 1832, recorded that, in the winterof 1831-32, several examples occurred far inland, driven inby stormy weather, and in his Report on the Birds of York-shire, quoted above, he mentioned others near York, thoughat most of the Yorkshire coast stations it was considered avery rare species until the year 1881, when some were takenin October and November ; while in Cleveland I had known ofbut one instance before 1891 ; in that year it was reportedas being unusually plentiful on several parts of the west coast,and doubtless, the Cleveland specimen, which was broughtinto the kitchen at Easby Hall by a cat, had been blown acrossfrom the Irish Sea. During the prevalence of a hurricanefrom north-north-east, on i8th October 1893, several indi-viduals were sto

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