. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . uld has receivedspecimens from India. Meyer says that it is common alsoin North America. In this country it is plentiful in the southern and easterncounties—Kent, Sussex, Hants., Wilts., Dorset, Devon, Corn-wab, Essex, SuflPolk, Norfolk, Deibyshire, Durbam, andNorthumberland: in Cornwall it is rare. In Yorkshire ic isvery abundant near Sowerby and Thirsk, as Edward , Esq. informs me. It occurs also in Scotland, even in the extremity of themainland, plentifully in Sutheidandsbii^e, about Tongue andLoch Assynt, Laing and Loch
. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . uld has receivedspecimens from India. Meyer says that it is common alsoin North America. In this country it is plentiful in the southern and easterncounties—Kent, Sussex, Hants., Wilts., Dorset, Devon, Corn-wab, Essex, SuflPolk, Norfolk, Deibyshire, Durbam, andNorthumberland: in Cornwall it is rare. In Yorkshire ic isvery abundant near Sowerby and Thirsk, as Edward , Esq. informs me. It occurs also in Scotland, even in the extremity of themainland, plentifully in Sutheidandsbii^e, about Tongue andLoch Assynt, Laing and Loch Naver, Leith Water, Currie,Slateford, Edinburgh, and tbe Pentland Hills. In Irelandalso, throughout the island, even in the extreme west, fromsouth to north—from Kerry to Donegal. In Orkney it is noted as having been observed at Clestion,in Orphir, during spring; it appeared in the neighbourhoodof Ellsness, in April, 1825; and one was killed by Mr. Strang,May 20th., 1839. Another was seen in a plantation atMuddisdale, near Kirkwall, June 2nd., WILLOW WAEELEE. 119 Tills bird frequents the hedges of meadows, especially those,if there be any such now left, that have not been laid lowby the pruners hook, and that both on hill and plain alike,as also the borders of streams, the nurseries of the alder, thehazel, the birch, and the withy, orchards, woods, brakes,plantations, thickets, furze covers, gardens, brambles, bushes,and trees, seeming to have a preference for osiers and willows,and hence its name. It is pleasant indeed to watch it inthe autumn, when the greater numbers are to be seen, glidingand shifting about among the branches of fruit trees andbushes, now hopping here, now frisking there, as i^ seemingto think that its diminutive size or conscious innocence wasa guarantee for its safe security from molestation or female shews great attachment to her young, and thoughtaken off the nest, has been known to return to it on beingset at liberty. One of our e
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