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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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d some years ago I haveknown several killed in the water at Foss Island, near York. Stricklands observations, quoted by Allis, may have beencorrect in his day, but do not, at the present time, accuratelyrepresent the status of the Little Auk, which may be describedas an erratic winter visitant on the coast from the Arcticregions, being not uncommon in some seasons, in othersrare or altogether absent, while at long intervals extra-ordinarily large numbers of these little Arctic visitors arereported. In the year 1841, when the flight, mentioned byHugh Reid, took place near Doncaster, many were noted inOctober at Redcar (Zool. 1845, p. 1183 ; and Yarrells BritishBirds ), as also in the autumn of 1863. In 1878 a suddennorth-west gale, with snow, sprang up on 12th November,and, from that date to the 21st, examples of this bird werewashed up on the shore ; many were found at Lowthorpein 1879; in November 1884 they were again abundant,and in January and February of 1890 numbers were reported
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Sharing the spoil. E. W. Wade See pas^e 71; LITTLE AUK. 731 at sea, while several were washed ashore at Redcar andScarborough. In the early months of 1894 a few were seenat various places on the coast from the Tees to Holderness,but in the winter following there occurred the most remarkableinvasion of these northern sea-fowl which has been recordedwithin the memory of living man. The weather during thelatter part of 1894, and in the opening days of January 1895,was of a very stormy character, wiih on-shore gales, andduring the first fortnight of the new year immense companiesof Little Auks passed along the coast, many being shot, whilemore were driven in by stress of weather and cast up on thesands in a dead, or exhausted and dying, condition. Thegales and rough seas continued, with scarcely any intermission,until the middle of February ; consequently the poor littleocean wanderers, being unable to procure food, perishedwholesale, and some hundreds were taken to the bird-stuffers ;on

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