. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . idental straggler to the British Isles, the instancesof its occurrence, as previously chronicled, being eight innumber and all confined to the southern or south-easterncounties of England. Mr. Thomas Stephenson of Whitby reports a ninthexample, which is the first known for the North of England,and a new species to Yorkshire. The individual in questionwas shot at Sleights, near Whitby, on the 20th September1905, and was forwarded to Mr. Stephenson for identificationto Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, who pronounces it to
. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . idental straggler to the British Isles, the instancesof its occurrence, as previously chronicled, being eight innumber and all confined to the southern or south-easterncounties of England. Mr. Thomas Stephenson of Whitby reports a ninthexample, which is the first known for the North of England,and a new species to Yorkshire. The individual in questionwas shot at Sleights, near Whitby, on the 20th September1905, and was forwarded to Mr. Stephenson for identificationto Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, who pronounces it to be an immaturebird, in first plumage, and a most interesting addition to theavi-fauna of the county (see Naturalist, March, 1906, p. 70). The specimen is now in the Whitby local museum. RED-BACKED collurio (Z ). Bird of passage, of rare occurrence ; has occasionally remainedto nest. Apparently the earliest local reference to the Red-backed Shrike is contained in the second book of Willughbys Ornithology, 1678, where it is stated that in Yorkshire itis called Nest of Red-backed Shrike in north-west Yorkshire. A. For/iiiu See page 141. RED-BACKED SHRIKE. 141 Thomas Allts, in 1844, wrote :— Laniiis coUurio.—Red-backed Shrike—Not very uncommon nearSheffield and Doncaster ; it breeds occasionally near Halifax, but isbecoming scarce ; it is met with occasionally near Huddersfield andYork, but is not known in the East Riding. This bird is of much less frequent occurrence in the countythan the Great Grey Shrike. It has been chronicled asbreeding in a few instances, but does not now, so far as myknowledge extends, repair annually to any locality, withthe exception of Sedbergh, where it is a fairly regular nester,though formerly it seems to have ranked as a somewhatconstant visitor, for the late Henry Denny, who was anexcellent naturalist, in his Leeds Catalogue, 1840, cited thisspecies as not uncommon in several localities near statement, quot
Size: 1573px × 1588px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorclarkewilliameagle185, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900
