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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
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ave them the chance. On very finedays, as he informs me, he saw them flying for about twohours in the middle of the day from eleven to one oclock.One of the Swallows died some time in the spring, the otherleft its winter quarters shortly before the return of theSwallows (in April), and was a conspicuous object amongits fellows during spring and early summer through havinglost one of the forks of its tail. It mated with anotherSwallow, and they attempted to nest in the pigsty, whichjoins the cowhouse, but this came to nothing—the lownessof the roof of the pigsty most likely causing them to desistfrom the attempt. (Field, 2nd January 1897.) The selection of breeding sites of this bird does not varygreatly, though at Campsall Hall a pair for several yearssuccessively attempted to build in the upper corner of theentrance hall (Neville Woods Nat. 1837) 5 another pair builta nest, in June 1887, and reared its brood, on the curtainpole overhanging a staircase window of a country house near
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See page 156. Cup-shaped Swallows nest, near Harrogate.. R. Fortune. SWALLOW. 157 Cottingham (Field, 8th October 1887) ; and at Wilstrop twonests were built under the eaves of an outhouse against a wall,and without any supporting ledge ; whilst at the same placeother two were in a shed built against the inner walls andabout a foot below the angle of the roof (Nat. 1890, p. 258). Late nests are not infrequent, therefore one or twoinstances only need be cited ; one at Starbeck had youngin October 1884, the old birds being observed feeding themduring a snowstorm at the end of that month ; and in thefollowing year several were reported, one, near Rotherham,having young as late as the loth of October. White varieties occur almost every season ; of Yorkshireexamples the earliest and latest known may sufhce :—Onein the Tunstall collection was shot at Bradford-on-Tees(Tunst. MS. p. 76), and the latest was noted at MarketWeighton in 1896. A dun coloured specimen was observedat Beverley in 18

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