A history of British birds. By the Rev. F.O. Morris (1862) (14564461397)

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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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der on the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, Japan, Syria,Persia, and China. It is also said to be found in America,from Hudsons Bay through the United States to Mexico.It appears likewise that it travels as far as Africa, to Egyptand Barbary. In the Orkneys, some used, according to the Rev. G. Low,in his Natural History of those Islands, to abide throughoutthe year; and a few pairs build on the Loch of Stenness, butin autumn large flocks arrive from the north, and of thesepart remain all the winter, and others cross over to Scotland—Sutherlandshire, Caithnesshire, Forfarshire, and the othernorthern counties, and thence penetrate according as the seasonimpels them even to the southern shores of Sussex andHampshire. In the Hebrides, Shetland, and Faroe Islands, these birdsalso have occurred. In Yorkshire they have been shot near Doncaster, Sheffield,Barn si ey, Leeds, and Sutton-on-Derwent; they are far fromuncommon in hard winters. A flock of five appeared in January, 1855, between the
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HOOPER. 151 village of Cookham and Maidenhead, Berkshire, and two ofthem were shot, as Mr. Thomas Wilmot has sent me word; andaccording to the information of the Hon. T. L. Powys, theyhave occurred in Northamptonshire. In Cambridgeshire it isnot uncommon in severe winters in Whittlesea Wash, the oldSquattlesea Mere of Roger Wildrake, and some were met withnear Wisbeach, on the River Nene, in the middle of December,1849. In Oxfordshire a flock of fifteen, one of which was shotalighted in the garden of the Vicarage at Weston-on-the-Green,on the Gth. of February, 1838. In Derbyshire flocks occuron the Trent near Melbourne, and other places at intervals inthe winter. In the year 1848 many were seen, and not a fewkilled, in Kent, near Gravesend; others also near the Thamesabove London, beyond Richmond, in Surrey, and near Chertsey. They naturally frequent swamps and lakes, but especially inwinter, such as are near the sea, and the shore and the seaitself. In Norfolk they are not unfrequent