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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
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extends from Greenland and Labrador, to theUnited Sbates, as far south as Carolina it is said, and pro-bably still further. Gannets breed in immense numbers on Ailsa Crag, in theFirth of Clyde; the Bass Rock, in the Firth of Forth; theStack of Souliskerry, near the Orkney Islands; Corea andSt. Kilda, in the Hebrides; Lundy Island, in the BristolChannel; and the Skelig Isles, off the coast of Ireland. The Solan Goose has not unfrequently been met withquite inland. Thus one was shot in Fulbourn Fields, Cam-bridgeshire, the latter end of September, 1S52. Another,a young one, in 1853, on some high ground called KirmondTop, near Swinhope House, Lincohishire, the seat of George)\Iarmaduke Alington, Esq. One near Great Grimsby, anadult bird, about the 1st. of May, 1850. One was foundat Culford, near Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, in December,18-14; a second was seen in the same neighbourhood a lewdays aftei; and a third was procured on Ickhngliani Hcatli,in the beginning of November, in 1819. I
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GANNET. 13 Joseph R. Little, Esq., of St. Johns College, Cambridge,has written me word of one which was shot in January,1853, at Eldevwell, near Whittlesea, Cambrids:eshire, at leasttwenty miles from the sea. He says in another letter thatthey occasionally stray so far inland. Mr. M. C. Cookeinforms me of one found in a field at Swanscombe, in Kent,in the spring of 1847. Another was obtained at FrenshamPond, near Farnham, Surrey. The Gannet has occurred two or three times in the countyof Northampton. A young one was taken in the parish of Ash, nearGodalming, Surrey, during the autumn of 1847. In Norfolk,they are not uncommon about Yarmouth in the autumn,following the shoals of fish as they pass along the coast.They occasionally occur also in the spring. Several wereshot in the Roads, after the severe gale of October 31st.,1827. One was taken near Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire, in 1843;it was in company with some tame Geese. Two others,males, apparently exhausted after a gale from the north

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