A history of British birds. By the Rev. F.O. Morris (1862) (14747791791)

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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 and Sons

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ally. A specimen occurred in Derbyshire near the village ofBurnaston, September 23rd., 1854: it was driven about, andknocked down by some Rooks. Others in Norfolk, at Blakeney,in December, 1847. The species is of occasional occurrencealong the coast, but mostly in the autumn, and generally inthe immature state of plumage. One was taken in Sussexin the village of Ovingdean, in October, 1844. It had struckdown a White Gull, which it would not quit; it was keptalive about a fortnight, and then died. The verj- first dayof its captivity it (is said to have) devoured twenty-fiveSparrows. Once it escaped, and immediately attacked a Duck,which it held till re-captured. Another was obtained atBrighton; one in Kent, at Dover; and one in Lancashire,at Liverpool. In Cornwall, an adult example of this specieswas killed near Penzance, in Mounts Bay, the beginning ofOctober, 1851. In Oxfordshire, one occurred near Oxford in February, 1854,and another in November, 1848. One in the collection of the I

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11: i^i!!il!;l;l!l:ll;if;l; POMEEINE SKUA. 115 Rev. Dr. Thackeray, of Kings College, Cambridge, is statedby the Rev. Leonard Jenyns to have been shot near Cambrido-e.Two at Hastings, in Sussex, in the early part of October,1851. In Yorkshire they have sometimes occm-red nearScarborough and along the coast in considerable numbers, thatis, young birds, but their visits are very uncertain; threewere obtained there by W. H. Rudston Read, Esq., in October,1831. One has been shot near York. In the year 1837 many were on sale in the London markets,and eight or ten of them had been caught alive. Two werecaptured in 1831 in Devonshire; others have been taken onthe Suffolk coast. One was shot in Hackney Marshes, nearLondon. In Scotland, Sir William Jardine has noticed them in theFirth of Forth, and several as high up as Newhaven. In Ireland they are of occasional occurrence. They are seen also in the Hebrides. In Orkney one wasobtained in, I believe, the year 1832. They advance southwards in th

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