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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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nd dry grass, and that of the former year is oftenrepaired, being thus raised to the height of nearly a coupleof feet. Thousands of birds build together. The eggs, three in number, are of a reddish yellow colour,spotted with dull red and purple. They are thought very goodto eat. The hen bird while sitting is fed Tby the male. Male; length, one foot two and a half to one foot threeinches; bill, black; iris, dusky brown, a black line runs backto the eye from the base of the bill. Forehead, white, thecrown yellowish grey, shaded backwards into greyish brown;neck and nape, dark chocolate brown; chin, throat, and breast,dark chocolate brown. Back, brown; greater and lesser wingcoverts, dark chocolate brown; primaries, brownish black;greater and lesser under wing coverts, dark chocolate brown.The tail is rounded, the middle pair of feathers being longerthan the others. It is dark chocolate brown in colour; upperand under tail coverts, dark chocolate brown. Legs and toes,black J webs, black.
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SABINES GULL. SABINE S XKME. Larus Sahini, Jenyns. Yarrt:ll. Sabhiei, TemminCK. Xeina Subini, Leach. Eyton. GolLD. ..? iSaimi—Sabines, or of Sabine. This neat and graceful bird was first discovered as a new-one by Captain Edward Sabine, of the Royal Artillery, whoaccompanied the expedition of 1818, in search of a north-westpassage: they w-ere noticed July ISth. on the coast of Grreenland;one subsequently in Prince Regents Inlet, and afterwards manyon Melville Peninsula; also in Felix Harbour, Behrings Straits,Cape Garry, and Igloolik; as also ofT Newfoundland, and atHalifax, in Nova k^cotia. In Europe one on the coast ofHolland, one on the Khine, and one in France, near Eouen.They belong to Spitzbergen. A specimen of this Gull was shot at Newhaven, in Sussex,in December, 1853. In Cambridgeshire one, and one atMilford Haven, in the autumn of 1S39. It is also an Irish species, the first recorded British examplehaving been shot in the Bay of Belfast, in September, 1822;a second occurre

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