Identifier: historyofbritish06morr (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 and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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a dull buff-coloured one, in.the possession of the Rev. J. Mathews, Vicar of Wetwang. Inthe Zoologist, page 2801, another is mentioned by EdmundThomas Higgins, in which the outer feather on one side wasconsiderably longer than the second, and on the other, shorter. A pied variety of this species was procured near Richmond,Yorkshire. One has been known with its bill, for considerably more thanhalf its length, turned upwards, like that of the Avocet. Inthe Magazine of Natural History, volume ii, page 437; oneis described which had the bill yellow, with a brown tip, thelines on the head of a dull buff: the breast above, yellowish 20 COMMON SNIPE. brown, yellow, and light chesnut; the quills and lesser wingcoverts, light dusky brown; the tail feathers barred with browu,chesnut, white, and yellow; upper tail coverts, brown, yellow,chesnut, and white intermixed; the legs and toes, light yellowishbrown. The plate is from a drawing by the Eev. K. P. Almgton,of Swinhope Rectory, Lincolnshire.
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21 JACK SNIPE. JTJDCOCK. TEALF SNIPE. Scolopax gallinula, Pennant. Montagu. GalUnago minor, Brisson. minima. Kay. Willughby. Stephens. Scolopax—A Woodcock, or Snipe. Gallinula- Well do I recall, among other recollections betokening thelove of nature which from the very first seemed part of mymind, the extreme admiration with which I regarded thesingular appearance of this true game and wild-looking birdwhen first seen: Could those days but come again! But no! it is best as it is. Let by-gones be by-gones: letHope prevail against Memory in the mind of the ChristianClergyman, and from his own experience may he the betterguide his flock. This species is found in Europe—in Russia, Sweden, Den-mark, France, and Italy. In Asia—in Siberia, Asia Minor,the vicinity of the Caucasus, and in India, in the Dukkun.It is believed to breed in the marshes of Holstein and Hanover,as also in Zealand. In this country it is not so numerous as the larger species. It is said to breed in Sutherlandshir

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