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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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soon as laid, whilekeepers and shepherds combine to destroy the parent birds,which, hke Ishmael of old, have every mans hand againstthem, and the wonder is that any contrive to escape. Coming now to the North Riding, the history of the Ravenis almost a memory of the past, though formerly there werenumerous places which could claim it as a regular breeder ;one of these was the Mausoleum at Castle Howard, where apair occupied a conspicuous position up to the year 1856;in the Helmsley and Riveaulx district up to i860 it bredon White Mare Cliff and Peakes Scar, and also in an ash treein Gowerdale ; other sites were at Roulston Scar, Hood Hill,and in Bilsdale ; at Danby it was extirpated in Atkinsonstime ( Moorland Parish, p. 329), but in Newton Dale nearPickering there was always a brood, till about 1875, in a cragknown as Ravens Cliff. In Cleveland, until so recently as1866, a pair nested near Guisborough, sometimes in Cass Rock,and at others on Highcliff near the Ravens Well (now called
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RAVEN. 237 the Jackdaws Well) ; five young were taken at the formerplace about i860, and a single bird was seen on Stape Moorin May 1893. In Wensleydale it is known at Ravens Scar,Walden Head, Cover Head, Ellerton, and Askrigg, and, inthe adjoining valley of the Swale, an old inhabitant, oneTimothy Hutton, born in 1779, and who died in 1863,remembered Ravens breeding in Hudswell Scar ; while upto 1880 there were breeding places in the upper dale at Swinner-gill, Oxnop Scar, and Ravens Crag, which latter place is saidto have been occupied in 1884 ; two were seen at Keld in 1881,and a pair in Arkengarthdale in 1882. The only parts of theNorth Riding where it still maintains a precarious footingare in the extreme north-west, in Upper Teesdale, and othertwo localities on the Westmorland border ; at the first namedplace a pair nested on Cronkley Scar until quite recently ; eggswere taken in 1899 and four birds were seen in the autumn of1902. In the year 1880 eleven Ravens were killed on Bo

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