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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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g-ton, or Scarborough, though the Queen of English wateringplaces; one also on the Tees mouth, near Redcar, on the 30th.of August, 1853, and another in a grass field at Coatham,near there, on the 17th. of October in the same year; bothare put on record in The Naturalist, volume iii, page 275-6,by T. S. Rudd, Esq. In Norfolk, one, a female, was shoton Breydon Broad, near Yarmouth, on the 30th. of September,1853. In Cornwall it has been met with about GwyllynVase, near Falmouth; also one on the shore of Annet, oneof the Isles of Scilly, on the 27th. of May, 1840, by D. W.Mitchell, Esq., of Penzance. They go north to build in the spring, and return in theautumn. They are fond of moist and marshy places and the banksof rivers, low down in a grassy vale, and near the sea.They mingle with other species, and collect in flocks. The flight of this Sandpiper is firm, rapid, and wellsustained. It skims rather low over the surface of the wateror the land, and at times shoots high up into the air,
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PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 55 propelling itself with double rapidity and in perfect silence.It runs with great agility, and probes the sand or wetearth, immersing its bill up to the base. They feed on small Crustacea, beetles, and other insectsand larvse, with which they swallow a few seeds; and theyalso subsist on some species of sea-weed, and absorb smallfragments of stone. For the former-named, they bore withthe bill in the sand. The note is a low plaintive whistle. Male; length, eight inches to eight inches and three quarters,or a little over that; bill, dark dusky brown towards the tip,orange brown about the base; from it a dusky line extendsto the eye, and over ib a white streak. Iris, dark brown;heaJ on the sides, greyish white tinged with brown, andstreaked with dusky black along the shaft of each feather;on the crown, dusky brown, the feathers with dark centralstreaks and rufous tips; neck on the sides, greyish whitewith a tinge of brown, and each feather streaked along theshaft wit

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