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Altham appears April arrival autumn Birds of Walney Black-headed Gulls Blackburn Blackwall Bowland bred breeds regularly Brockholes Byerley C. S. Gregson Clitheroe coast common Common Tern district Duck Dunlin early Fauna of Liverpool feeding female flying Formby frequently Furness GENUS Gmelin Goosnargh Gulls hatched Hist Hornby inland J. B. Hodgkinson J. D. Banister Jackson John Hardy John Weld June killed Lancashire late Leagram Lesser Black-backed Gull Liverpool localities male Manchester March Martin Mere Michael's-on-Wyre migration moors Morecambe Bay mosses neighbourhood nest numbers observed occasionally occurs October pair Pendle Hill plentiful plumage Preston R. J. Howard rare Red Grouse reservoir Ribble sand-hills says seen seldom September shore shot Skaife small numbers Snipe sometimes Southport specimen spring Standen summer visitor Tern TITMOUSE trees usually W. A. Durnford Wagtail Walney Island Warbler weather Whalley whilst winter visitor woods writes Wyre Wyresdale young birds Zool
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Page 132 - Goose, hauing blacke legs and bill or beake, and feathers blacke and white, spotted in such manner as is our Magpie, called in some places a Pie-Annet, which the people of Lancashire call by no other name than a tree Goose : which place aforesaid, and all those parts adjoyning do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for three pence.
Page 131 - ... to the shape and form of a bird. When it is perfectly formed, the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the foresaid lace or string ; next come the legs of the bird hanging out, and as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill. In short space after it cometh to full maturity, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowl, bigger than a mallard, and lesser than a goose...
Page 131 - ... finely woven, as it were, together, of a whitish colour, one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even as the fish of...
Page 131 - But what our eyes have seen and our hands have touched" continues 'the Author, doubtless with full sincerity, " we shall declare. There is a small island in Lancashire called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised ships, some whereof have been cast thither by...
Page 131 - When it is perfectly formed, the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the foresaid lace or string : next come the legs of the bird hanging out, and as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, til at length it is all come forth, and hangeth onely by the bill. In short space after, it commeth to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, anfl groweth to a fowle...
Page 133 - Crumpsall, at an elevation not exceeding fifty yards above the surface of the earth. They flew in a line, taking a northerly direction, and their loud calls, for they Were very clamorous when on the wing, might be heard to a considerable distance.
Page 127 - the arms of the town of Liverpool are, however, comparatively modern, and seem to have no reference to the Ibis. The bird has been adopted in the arms of the Earl of Liverpool, and in a recent Edition of Burke's Peerage, is described as a cormorant holding in the beak a branch of sea-weed.
Page 23 - Sedge bird," in Montagu's Dictionary, p. 455. of Rennie's edition, the writer says, " It has a variety of notes, which partake of that of the skylark and the swallow, as well as the chatter of the house sparrow. According to my observations, it has a much greater variety than this : I have heard it imitate, in succession (intermixed with its own note of chur chur), the swallow, the house martin, the greenfinch, the chaffinch, the lesser redpole, the house sparrow, the redstart, the willow wren, the...
Page 134 - ... have deferred to describe it as a new bird to ornithologists, had I not been anticipated by Mr. Yarrell. " Of the habits and manners of this species, little could be ascertained from a brief inspection of a wounded individual ; I may remark, however, that when on the water, it had somewhat the air and appearance of a goose, being almost wholly devoid of that grace and majesty by which the mute swan is so advantageously distinguished. It appeared to be a shy and timid bird, and could only be approached...
Page 23 - ... of these birds, and so exactly does it imitate them, both in tone and modulation, that if it were to confine itself to one (no matter which), and not interlard the waitings of the little redpole and the shrieks of the martin, with the curses of the house sparrow, the twink tinink of the chaffinch, and its own care for nought chatter, the most practised ear would not detect the difference.