. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . ewby has informed me,was shot near Stockton-on-Tees, in the county of Durham, onthe 2nd. of November, 1852; it was one of four seen at thesame time. The circumstance is recorded in The Naturalist,volume iii, page 60. In Cornwall, one is mentioned in thesame magazine, volume ii, page 85, by John Gatcombe, Esq.,as having been shot in the neighbourhood of was not the slightest indication in the look of thebird to lead one to suppose that it had ever been kept inconfinement. Another, of which Mr. William Fenwick haswritten
. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . ewby has informed me,was shot near Stockton-on-Tees, in the county of Durham, onthe 2nd. of November, 1852; it was one of four seen at thesame time. The circumstance is recorded in The Naturalist,volume iii, page 60. In Cornwall, one is mentioned in thesame magazine, volume ii, page 85, by John Gatcombe, Esq.,as having been shot in the neighbourhood of was not the slightest indication in the look of thebird to lead one to suppose that it had ever been kept inconfinement. Another, of which Mr. William Fenwick haswritten me word, was killed near Stanhope, also in thecounty of Durham, in the beginning of 1855. In Suffolk, afine specimen was shot at Butley, near Woodbridge, aboutthe 1st. of April, 1S52. In Kent, five were seen aboutKomney Marsh for some few days in July, 1816. In thecounty of Oxford, one, on a piece of water at Shelswell;and another at Blenheim, the seat of the Duke of Marlborough,in December, 1817. In Berkshire, one at Thatcheni, in the month of January,. EGYPTIAN GOOSE. 141 1705. In Sussex, an Egyptian Goose was shot on the harbourat Shoreham, on the 5th. of January, 1848; another in theparish of Shermanbury, on the 11th. of the same month;one at Pevensey, in January, 1850; one also near Norfolk, one on Ormesby Broad, on the 11th. of March,1848, and a second a few days afterwards; two others, amale and a female off Yarmouth, on the 28th of April, 1851;Colonel Hawker refers to two shot in the same county. Oneon Derwent Lake, in Westmoreland, on the 2nd. of the followingMay. In Cambridgeshire, one in Fulbourn Fields, the middleof September, 1852. In Dorsetshire, two in the year Hampshire, Colonel Hawker speaks of three having beenkilled at Longparish, in the winter of 1823, and of a fiockof eighty appearing near the same place the following year,during a tremendous gale from the west, when two morewere obtained. In Northumberland, five were seen on theFern Isl
Size: 1361px × 1835px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, bookpublisherl, booksubjectbirds
