This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... the Green Woodpecker. Possibly this may be the bird referred to in the list in question. As the author expressly states that he omits "such birds as are common," it is doubtful whether.he would intend to include the Jay. With regard to the "Ptarmigan," there must be some mistake, for it is impossible ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... the Green Woodpecker. Possibly this may be the bird referred to in the list in question. As the author expressly states that he omits "such birds as are common," it is doubtful whether.he would intend to include the Jay. With regard to the "Ptarmigan," there must be some mistake, for it is impossible to suppose that this rock-loving species, this bird of the mist and mountain, was ever met with in haunts so uncongenial to its habits as the flats and fens of Lincolnshire. The word "Sarcelle," as every naturalist knows, is the French name for our familiar little Teal; and yet if this be the bird referred to by the writer of 'Xotitia Ludce, ' it is strange that he should have called it "rare" in Lincolnshire, where, at the date at which he wrote, it must have been one of the commonest of all waterfowl, being annually taken in decoys by hundreds, not to say thousands. Should the author be still living, and read these lines, he would confer a favour by affording some explanation.--J. E. Hartino. Manx Shkarwaticr In Oxfordshire And Northamptonshire.--I recorded, at p. 135, the fact of some Manx Shearwaters having been captured alive in Oxfordshire. I am now able to add two more to the list. Mr. H. Norris, of Swalcliffe Park, near Banbury, writes mef-' As to the Manx Shearwater in my possession, I beg to say it was caught by some workmen returning home one evening in September, 1877, by the brook-side at Framington, near here. I sent it to Spicer at Leamington to be stuffed, and he informed me that it was an adult bird. I tried for two days, with fish and raw meat, to keep it alive, but it would eat nothing. I then turned it into the garden, hoping it might, like the Plovers, take to worms and slugs. There is a finer specimen than mine at a...
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