. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . rouse are common in Russia, Siberia, and Lapland,and are found in Germany, Poland, Holland, France, Swit-zerland, and Italy along the Alps. In Yorkshire they are tolerably plentiful in some woodsnear Sheffield, and one was captured in a street of that town,in 1843; ^one was taken at Hebden Bridge, one near Hep-tonstall, and one near L^ghtcliffe: in Northumberland theyare very abundant. Individuals have at different times beenturned out in Norfolk, and a few are still occasionally metwith in these localities; a iemale was shot at Clenchw
. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . rouse are common in Russia, Siberia, and Lapland,and are found in Germany, Poland, Holland, France, Swit-zerland, and Italy along the Alps. In Yorkshire they are tolerably plentiful in some woodsnear Sheffield, and one was captured in a street of that town,in 1843; ^one was taken at Hebden Bridge, one near Hep-tonstall, and one near L^ghtcliffe: in Northumberland theyare very abundant. Individuals have at different times beenturned out in Norfolk, and a few are still occasionally metwith in these localities; a iemale was shot at Clenchwarton,near Lynn, about the last week in April, 1852. In Somer-setshire, they breed on the Quantock and Blaokdown Hills,near Taunton, and also in Devonshire. A grey hen wasobserved in Northamptonshire, in September, 1849, nearOranford, the seat of Sir George Bobinson, Bart., and after-wards near Grafton Park; the following May and June, hernest containing ten eggs was observed. In Sherwood Forest,Nottinghamshire, and the New Forest, Hampshire, it is also. BLACK GROUSE. 191 located; one, a grey hen, is recorded by J. B. Ellman, Esq.,in the Zoologist, page 3330, as having been caught nearLewes, Sussex, on the 30th. of October, 1851: the cock birdwas seen at the same time. One, a female, was shot nearHampton Court, Herefordshire, the seat of J. Arkwright, Esq.,in March, 1850; another, also a female, was found dead atElvedon, in Suffolk, on the 12th. of October, 1844; a malehad been seen in the adjoining parish the first week in Sep-tember. One was captured on IJrchfont Down, near Devizes,Wiltshire, in April, 1851, by a gamekeeper of Lord BroughtonDe Gifford; one shot near Forest Hill, Oxfordshire, in October,1836. They breed regularly near Axmouth, Devonshire; andalso on Exmoor, Dartmoor, and Sedgemoor. These birds have now become quite localized in variousparts of the neighbourhood of Windermere, Westmorland,having made their first appearance in that district in are foun
Size: 1270px × 1967px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthormorr, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, booksubjectbirds
