Identifier: historyofbritish04morr (find matches)
Title: A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge

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Senegal, as likewise inMadeira and the Azores. In Asia also it is known, inPersia, Java, and Japan. Throughout England it is met with in all quarters of thecountry, but mostly in the south, from Sussex to the LandsEnd, and from Suffolk and Norfolk to Derbyshire and Wales.In Cornwall it is scarce; in Yorkshire it is commonly dis-tributed, but is least plentiful it is said near Huddersfield,where, however, some are believed to stay throughout theyear. One was caught in the township of St. John in Bed-wardine, near Worcester, on the 20fch. of January, 1843.Another in January, about the year 1847, near Dover; andone on the 22nd. of December, 1852, in Norfolk. In Ireland it seems to be a regular summer visitant tocertain districts, but must be considered very local. Dr.Harvey, in his ^Fauna of Cork, mentions two taken therein November, 1839; and one was found dead in the gardenof Mr. Ball, near Youghal, in the second week in January,1838. Eoberfc J. Montgomery, Esq., Jun., shot two on the
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BLACKCAP. 95 21^t. of December, 18 IS, at the Manor House, Rah en v, nearDublin. Mr. Templeton noticed it at his own residence,Cranmore, on the 17th. of June, 1818, and twice since. Onewas procured in the garden of the Bishop of Dovn, nearBelfast, on the 1st. of March, 1834: one near Dublin, the■first week in December, 1833; and one in the Phoenix Park,about the middle of May, 18M. Two in the same localityin December, 1843; one at Donnybrook, once so celebratedfor its fair, in October, 1846; one at Rathfarnham, also inthe same county, in January, 1847; and one at Moores*Svveet Vale of Avoca, in the county of Wicklow, on the23rd. of May, 1837. One of a small party of six or seven,probably the family of the year, was procured at Clonmel, onthe 27th. of December, 1834; others at Ballibrado, in thecounty of Tipperary; one near Waterford on the 9th. ofOctober, 1830, and another on the 21st. of August, 1834, atDun more, in that county; and one at Dunmore, in Galway,on the 1st. of November

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