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Title: The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Nelson, Thomas Hudson, d. 1916 Clarke, William Eagle, 1853-1938 Boyes, F
Subjects: Birds -- England Yorkshire
Publisher: London : A. Brown
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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feet elevation, and on the 14th of the same month,Mr. H. Lazenby reported one on the ground on a Wensley-dale fell side ; on 6th April 1897, I saw one containing threeeggs, in a low branch of a holly tree at Potto Grange, inCleveland, within five feet of the ground ; in 1903 a nest»with young, was found in a standard plum tree in the HarrogateHydro gardens, four feet from the ground; several wereseen in that locality, and also at Beverley, in even lowersituations, some being at no greater elevation than two feet.The species is certainly double brooded, and, in an orchardat Beverley, the same nest has been used for both broods;in the last week of March 1871, an old bird was found sittingon four eggs, which hatched early in April, and on the 19thof May the nest again contained four more young birds.The earliest nest known to me had eggs in the first week ofMarch, though at Beverley a hen bird was sitting on eggs on27th February 1903. The gizzards of young birds examined by Mr. Ge«rge
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SONG THRUSH. 3 Roljcrts of Lofthouse, near Wakefield, contained caterpillars,flies, elytra of beetles, and numerous minute white roundbodies resembling the eggs of insects. After the breedingseason the birds pack, and on the occasion of the HawesMeeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists Union on 28th June1884, a large party was ol)scrved swooping down the fellside, uttering their characteristic churring note. Thesegatherings have, in not a few instajiccs, no doubt been reporteda. early Fieldfares. A variety obtained near Patrington, some few years ago,formerly in the possession of Mr. Philip W. Loten, and nowin the collection of Mr, Marshall of Taunton, has the groundcolour of the feathers white, while the spots and other mark-ings are of the usual tint. This bird is very generally known as the Storm-cock, orStormy. In Cleveland, from its early song, it is dubbedJeremy Joy (January Joy), and in some parts Wood Throstle,Rattle Thrush, and Golden Thrush ; in parts of the EastRiding it is Cha

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