Identifier: historyofbritish08morr (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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he north. Several examples of this species were procured in Englandin the autumns of 1823, 1825, and 1831; in the first-namedof these years, one, said to have been caught on the Essexcoast, was bought in Leadenhall Market, London. In Dor-setshire, I once obtained one found dead near Charmouth.In Worcestershire, where one had been found before, a speci-men was shot near the city of Worcester, November 12th.,1849. In Warwickshire, one, a male, was found dead on theestate of J. P. West, Esq., of Alscot, near Stratford-on-Avon;five others in the same county in previous years. In Norfolk,three were seen near Lowestoft, on the 28th. of November,1849, and one, a male, shot at Yarmouth a day or two after,as another had been in the middle of October; a specimenwas found on the beach near that town, December 25th., 1823;another, a female, on Caistor beach, near there, on the 4th.of December in the same year; also one found dead on awarren. In Devonshire, a Fork-tailed Petrel was picked up U ..A
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leachs petrel. 141. on the shore near Tor Abbe)^, in December, 1819; one nearPlymouth, in December, 1856, of which John Gatcombe, Esq.,of Wyndham Place, has written me word; on January 4th.,1850, one was taken alive, but in an exhausted state, on thehighroad between Edgware and Stanmore. One of these birdswas found on one of the high downs near Seaford, Sussex,of which R. V. Dennis, Esq. has informed me, and of fourothers about the same time near Brighton; another picked updead on or about the 6th. of November, 1850; one at Potting-dean, taken alive, December 14th., 1848. In Oxfordshire, onewas found dead in the winter of 1850-51, at Blenheim Park,near Woodstock, the seat of His Grace the Duke of Marl-borough; another in the parish of Weston-on-the-Green, inFebruary, 1838, others also; one shot near Henley, in the year1847; one also at Chipping Norton. In Durham, one, obtainedby the Eev. A. Shafto. One in the county of Hereford. Inthe county of Cumberland, one was taken in a net in th

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