. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . tate, with advantage to themselves and benefit toothers tlirough an improved example. It inhabits all the more temperate parts of Europe, goingas far north as Norway and Sweden, which it leaves, accordingto M. Nillson, at the approach of winter. In Italy it isplentiful in the latter season; so it is also in France; arrivingthere in October, and leaving in the spring. In Asia, myfriend ]Mr. Hugh Edwin Strickland has noticed it, in AsiaMinor, in Dcccaiber. It is common likewise in Scotland and Ireland. It occa-sionally visits Orkney in Oc

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. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . tate, with advantage to themselves and benefit toothers tlirough an improved example. It inhabits all the more temperate parts of Europe, goingas far north as Norway and Sweden, which it leaves, accordingto M. Nillson, at the approach of winter. In Italy it isplentiful in the latter season; so it is also in France; arrivingthere in October, and leaving in the spring. In Asia, myfriend ]Mr. Hugh Edwin Strickland has noticed it, in AsiaMinor, in Dcccaiber. It is common likewise in Scotland and Ireland. It occa-sionally visits Orkney in October. It was observed nearKirkwall during the winter of 1842, and again in the sameseason in 1844. Hardy in its habits, it needs not to migrate, but remainsin its local habitation throughout the year. In the depth ofwinter, indeed, it approaches more nearlj^ to houses, whichagain it leaves with the change of season for the hedge-side,the garden, the orchard, the plantation, or the pleasure-ground;and there, or among bushes, it passes its summer, seldom.

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