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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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ibu-tion, and most numerous in the Vale of York (a name appliedto the central plain of the county), and the north-east portionof the North Riding, which may be included between twolines, one drawn from York, by Malton, to Scarborough,and the other from the same starting point, due north alongthe western base of the Hambleton Hills. In these districtsit prefers the woods bordering the highlands, and is morepartial in its distribution than the Spotted species, thoughfairly numerous in the localities frequented by it. The Valeof Pickering is one of its chief strongholds ; it is abundantalso in the woods between Whitby and the Tees Valley; theold Yorkshire ornithologist, Marmaduke Tunstall, of Wycliffe-on-Tees, referring to it in 1784 as passing the winter herein the north (p. 60), though, owing to the cutting downof timber and the persecution by collectors, it is not so abundantin the county as formerly. Outside the area indicated itoccurs commonly in Wensleydale, Baldersby, Studley, and
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Home of Green Woodpecker. R. Fortune. Sec page 27. GREEN WOODPECKER. 273 Swinton Parks, and in Nidderdale, especially in the vicinityof Harrogate. In other parts of the West Riding it is a scarcebird, and almost unknown in the extreme west and north-westdivisions ; though a pair nested at Bolton Abbey in 1906.In the remoter parts of the North Riding it has occurredrarely in Upper Teesdale and near Sedbergh. Perhaps themost singular feature in its distribution is its entire absencefrom Bishop Wood, near Selby, the oldest and largest woodin the county. It is not found on the chalk Wolds or clays in the east,though it occurs on the west ridge of the Wolds, and is notuncommon in the drier sandy, or moory situations, where italso breeds; it is more local in the East Riding than else-where ; it is somewhat rare near Beverley, but breeds rathercommonly near Market Weighton, and not uncommonly atScampston. It occurs at Pocklington, and has been notedonce in November 1882, at Rimswell, in Sout

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