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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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^ Islands the(Juckoo is frequently heard. A few hreed every season inretired parts of Hoy and Waas: two were killed in Sanday,hy Mr. Strang, in September, 1827. A Cuckoo in the plumage of the first year was killed atLetton, in Norfolk, on the 5th. of Mav, as recorded by John
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CUCKOO. 99 Henry Gurney, and William Richard Fisher, Esqrs., in theiracconnt of the Birds found in that county. The general appearance of the Cuckoo is strikingly like thatof the female Sparrow-Hawk. It frequents localities of themost opposite description—the di-eary fen, the wild heath ofthe open treeless moor, as well as those in which brushwoodabounds, and the well-wooded hedge-rows of the best cultivateddistricts. It need hardly be mentioned that the Cuckoo is a migratorybird: in April come he will, and that about the middle ofthe month—generally on the 17th.; it has been heard on the15th.; once on the 13th., as mentioned by Mr. Thompson, ofBelfast, but frequently not until one or other of the daysbetween these dates and the 30th. One was both heard andseen at Malvern, in Worcestershire, a neighbourhood whichhas been noticed as more than ordinarily abounding in thesebirds, on the 12th. of January, 1851, as recorded by F. E.Gibbes, Esq., of Xorthalierton, in The ISTaturalist, p

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