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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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ica on the west coast, in Madeira, and the CanaryIslands. In America, in Greenland and about HudsonsBay, and so southwards to New England and other parts. in Cornwall it occurs about Gwyllyn Vase, Swanpool,and Falmouth, but is not common there, though generallyelsewhere. It is however not unfrequently seen quite inland,as in Oxfordshire, especially in the spring months. InWorcestershire one, a young bird, was shot near Worcester,on the banks of the River Severn, in October, 1846. InMonmouthshire another, also a young one, was obtained onthe 12tli. of the same month; others were seen. Some largeflocks had occurred a few years before. In Surrey this birdhas been frequently shot at Frensham Pond, near Godalming.Two at Chertsey, October 6th., 1846. One was killed atBushy Park, and others nearly forty miles up the Thames. It is very common on the Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, andNorfolk coasts. Specimens, too, have occurred inland in thefirst-named county, at Leeds, though rarely, Huddersfield,
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COMMON TERN. 31 Hebden Bridge, and Barnsley, by the margins of reservoirsand the course of canals. In Derbyshire one near Melbourne,May the 25th., 1845. It has been met with near Oxford.In Cambridgeshire it is found in the Isle of Ely duringthe summer months. Some were shot at March, the 7th.of May, 1850. The species is observed all along the southcoast; in Kent, most numerously, it is stated, about Win-chelsea, Dungeness, and Romney Marsh; Dorsetshire, Devon-shire, and Cornwall; so in Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Durham,and Northumberland. It is common in Ireland; also in Scotland, in the Frithof Forth, and along the coast, and has occurred in differentyears in Dumfriesshire; likewise in the Hebrides. The Common Tern breeds near Skinburness, on RockcliffeSalt;marsh, by Solway Frith, and a few on Solway Moss.Many on Foulney Island, on the Lancashire coast. Priest-holm Isle, off the coast of Anglesea, is another nestingplace, as also the Fern Islands, on the Nortliumbrian coast,and the Isl

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