Identifier: historyofbritish06morr (find matches)
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
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about theCaucasus. Pennant was the first to describe this as a British bird,from a specimen preserved in the celebrated Leverian Museum.It was killed in Lancashire. In Norfolk it is not uncommon in the autumn, in Augustand September, but is met with only in small numbers.W. F. W. Bird, Esq. tells me of three he saw shot there,and of another sent from Yarmouth. P. E. Hansell, Esq.has reported his having found a nest with four eggs, in April,1846, at Belaugh, near Wroxham, the birds belonging towhich appeared to be of this species; and he also informsme of a male bird having been killed near Lowestoft, inSuffolk, in the month of April, 1851. In the county ofNorthumberland several instances have occurred; one nearTwizel, the seat of Prideaux John Selby, Esq., in 1822. InDurham, five or six on Sedgemoor. Two or three wereobtained near Castle Eden in the winter of 1853; and theHon. Augustus Barrington, and his brother Lord Barrington,shot, many years ago, four Solitary Snipes, two of which
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GREAT SNIPE. 11 were young birds, scarcely full-fledged. This was on FishburnCarr, between Castle Eden and Darlington. In Devonshire, one was shot on Shaugh Moor, September7th., 1850. In Cornwall, it occurred at Gwyllyn Vase, nearFalmouth, in December, 1848. In Kent, near Dover, one.In Derbyshire, a few have been observed near Melbourne, inthe autumn, at different times. In Sussex, one was shotnear Lewes, in October, 1849. Mr. Chaffey has seen it at Dodington, in Kent, inSeptember, 1851. The Kev. Charles Alington procured onein the parish of Marsh Chapel, Lincolnshire, in the year1850; and A. Fuller, Esq, mentions one shot at Tetney, nearGrimsby, in September, 1852. In Oxfordshire, one or twohave been found at Botley—one the end of September, 1851.N. Eowe, Esq., of Worcester College, Oxford, has writtenme word of one which was killed in the winter of 1851, ina sand-pit on the road to Botley from Oxford. It hasoccurred also in Surrey, near Oodalming. In Ireland it has been met with.

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