. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . that oneshot near Helmsley was in his possession ( Orn. Brit. p. 10). Thomas Allis, in 1844, wrote :— Clangula vulgaris.—Golden-eye—Not uncommon near Doncaster ;is obtained at Hebden Bridge, also near Barnsley, Leeds, and Hudders-field ; it is very abundant in the neighbourhood of York, especiallyin immature plumage. The Golden-eye is a late autumn or winter visitant, never,as a rule, arriving before October ; the individuals then seenare generally in immature plumage, the adult bird being rare,and the drake
. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . that oneshot near Helmsley was in his possession ( Orn. Brit. p. 10). Thomas Allis, in 1844, wrote :— Clangula vulgaris.—Golden-eye—Not uncommon near Doncaster ;is obtained at Hebden Bridge, also near Barnsley, Leeds, and Hudders-field ; it is very abundant in the neighbourhood of York, especiallyin immature plumage. The Golden-eye is a late autumn or winter visitant, never,as a rule, arriving before October ; the individuals then seenare generally in immature plumage, the adult bird being rare,and the drake especially so. This duck is found on the coast singly or in smah parties,and in the estuaries of the Tees and Humber it was fairlynumerous before the growth of steam traffic ; it is now moreabundant on fresh water lakes and rivers, while they remainunfrozen, than on the tide, though in hard frosts it is drivento the salt water and its numbers are augmented in severewinters by fresh comers. In the winter of 1864-65 it wasnumerous on the river Hull, and in immature plumage is. Site of Coatham Decoy. 1887. A. Loftliousc. Sec paifc 447.
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