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Title: The birds of Devon
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: D'Urban, W. S. M. (William Samuel Mitchell) Mathew, Murray Alexander, 1838-1908 Keulemans, J. G. (John Gerrard), 1842-1912, lithographer Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London : R.H. Porter
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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. 18.37, p. llo; and Rowes Peramb. Dartmoor, p. 232). Two are said to havebeen obtained on Dartmoor, one of them about 1848. Two were obtained on Exmoor,in October or November, 187.); and anotlier in the winter of 1873). A female trapped on Dartmoor, nearLustleigh, ilarch 28,1883, is in the possession of ^Ir. W. Vicarv, of Newton Abbot ( Field for April 2Sth,1883; Trans. Devon. Assoc. 18S4, p. 71). A few examples of this Buzzard have been procured in Somerset and Dor.set, but itis apparently extremely rare in Cornwall, which is beyond the limit of its westernrange. THE EAGLES. However great our ambition might be to claim the largerbirds of prey as residents in Devonshire in by-gone years,if not in the present, we are compelled to own that no- hrds -.- Devon. PI. III.
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J G Keulemona del el UUi Minterrt Broa. Chcoij„ ..;.K, ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD, Black VarieLy /•j^ch:but-eo lagopus,(&rri.el.) Puoliahed by R H Port«r FALCOXID^. 119 where iu the South-west are there to be found precipicesof sufficient rugoedness and grandeur to be worthy of theMountain Eagles eyrie. Dartmoor and Exmoor are downswith rounded ridges, which run in succession like the headsof billows, only here and there crowned on the former withsome fantastic blocks of granite, hardly offering spaceenough to support the massive structure of the Eagles nest.Along the coast there were, no doubt, a few eyries of theErne, especially on spots frequented by Razorbills, Her-ring-Gulls, and other cliff-nesting birds which provided itsdaily meals. Tradition claims for the Dewerstone Rock,near Plymouth, and also for Lundy Island, with muchprobability, that they were formerly each of them occupiedby a pair of White-tailed Eagles. In spite of their sizeand splendid flight, the position award

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