Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Order Passeres, complete in two volumes (1907) (14564312878)

Identifier: birdsofgreatbrit01butler (find matches)
Title: Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Order Passeres, complete in two volumes
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur G. (Arthur Gardiner), 1844-1925 Grönvold, Henrik, 1858-1940 Frohawk, Frederick William, 1861-1946
Subjects: Birds Birds Passeriformes
Publisher: London : Caxton Pub. Co.
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^ bird, though a few are known tofrequent situations where open water is to be found during the winter. South ofthe Alps it is found throughout the year, its numbers being increased duringwinter, its range at that season extending as far south as Nubia. As the BlackRedstart very rarely occurs in Norfolk, and has not been recorded from theLincolnshire coast, it seems probable that the birds which visit our islands comefrom Holland, where it is exceedingly common, and follow the coast, choosing theshortest passage across the Channel. This is an autumn and winter visitant to our southern coasts, being mostcommonly met with in Devon and Cornwall; but whether it really remains to
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Black Redstart s rb ? Plate 12. The Black Redstart. 45 breed with us has been questioned : eggs supposed to belong to this bird have,from time to time been obtained in various localities, but in no case have thebirds themselves been satisfactorily identified in connection with these eggs : thusan egg, believed by several eminent Ornithologists to be that of the BlackRedstart, was passed round at a Meeting of the Zoological Society in 1878, bythe Rev. R. P. Barron, M.A.; he having obtained it with two others in Hertford-shire in 1876. This egg was sent to me for illustration in my Handbook ofBritish Oology, together with the remains of the nest; Mr. Barron writingrespecting it as follows :— The nest, I fear, is not very perfect, having been two j^ears left in its place;it was found in the middle of May, 1876, right inside the hollow trunk of a livingelm-tree, at a distance of about seven or eight feet from the ground, in a projectingledge of the inside wood, and within a few feet of