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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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ded by Mr. F. Boyes (Zool. 1877, p. 53) ; thisspecimen is now in the York Museum. In the same journal (1876, p. 4871), Mr. F. Boyes againrecords as a Black-bellied Dipper one obtained by a mannamed Priestman on the River Hull at Beverley, on the 29thof October 1875. The Rev. Julian G. Tuck mentions in the Field (January1876, p. 22) one taken at Flotmanby, near Filey, on the 8thof December 1875. In the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney is a specimen whichoccurred near Bridlington, and was purchased by him of thelate Mr. Jones, taxidermist, of Bridlington Quay. BEARDED TITMOUSE.Panurus biarmicus (Z.). Casual visitant ; of very rare occurrence. The Bearded Tit or Reedling, as it is usually designated,is resident on the broads of Norfolk, the nearest locality toYorkshire where it is to be met with, and it is not uncommonon the reed-beds of Holland and other portions of theContinent, but as it is a sedentary species it is most likelythat the stragglers, reported in parts of England other than
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-0 BEARDED TITMOUSE. 105 the neighbourhood of its nesting haunts, are native birdsand not migrants. It is somewhat remarkable that of theearHer records of this species appertaining to Yorkshire noexample has actually been obtained, and, owing to this unsatis-factory condition of affairs, its status is of a very uncertaincharacter. Thomas Allis, in 1844, wrote :— Calamophilus biarmicus.—Bearded Tit—The only notice I have ofthis bird is from Wm. Eddison who says, It is not very common nearHuddersfield. I do not recollect to have seen more than three orfour living specimens. I had a dispute with a collector, who assertedthey were common, but those he saw proved to be the long-tailedand not the bearded. Mr. Mark Booth of Killerby recorded (Zool. 1845, p. 1135)that he observed a fine male close to Kirkleatham Hospital,three or four years ago. A more interesting statement was made by CharlesWaterton, who informed Mr. A. J. More that a pair oncebuilt by the side of the lake at Walton H

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