. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. ORIOLID^. 145. THE GOLDEN ORIOLE. Oriolus galbula, Linnaeus. This handsome bird is an annual spring-migrant to Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, where as many as forty have been seen in a single April, and it is an irregular but not infrequent visitor to the southern and eastern counties of England; while nests have been found—or the birds seen under circumstances which left little doubt that they were breeding—in Norfolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire, Surrey, and especially in Kent. The most authentic instances have been at Dumpton Par
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. ORIOLID^. 145. THE GOLDEN ORIOLE. Oriolus galbula, Linnaeus. This handsome bird is an annual spring-migrant to Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, where as many as forty have been seen in a single April, and it is an irregular but not infrequent visitor to the southern and eastern counties of England; while nests have been found—or the birds seen under circumstances which left little doubt that they were breeding—in Norfolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire, Surrey, and especially in Kent. The most authentic instances have been at Dumpton Park, Isle of Thanet, where a pair of birds, protected by the proprietor, Mr. BanJces Tomlin, reared a brood (Harting, 'Our Summer Migrants,' p. 268) in 1874, and again in 1875. ^^ ^ '""^^i however, the bright plumage of this bird attracts the attention of the destroyer, and the species is thus prevented from nesting with us annually, as it would otherwise do ; for migrants generally return to the localities in which they were. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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