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Excerpt from The Birds of the West of Scotland, Including the Outer Hebrides: With Occasional Records of the Occurrence of the Rarer Species Throughout Scotland Generally
In addition to local advantages of this nature, I have had the satisfaction of seeing and examining the greater number of the collections, public and private, in Scotland - a privilege which while it has enabled me to trace the distribution of some of the less common species, gives me an opportunity of estimating the correctness of previous records Of their occurrence. Thus the Grey Shrike, Great Spotted Woodpecker, and Shore Lark, formerly represented as rare, are now found to be almost regular winter visitants in considerable numbers, and scattered over a large tract of country, although making their first appearance in the north eastern districts of Scotland; while the Hobby, Wryneck, Tree Sparrow, and some other species formerly looked upon as mere stragglers into Scotland, are now known to occupy breeding stations even in the western counties.
I have also carefully looked into the records of the Older Scottish writers, scientific and otherwise, from some of which it is evident that birds recently announced as new to Scotland were long ago found in different localities north of the Tweed. In Don''s ''fauna of Forfarshire,'' for example, several species such as the Red-backed Shrike, Nuthatch, etc., are catalogued as having occurred in that county as far back as the beginning Of the present century records which appear to have been entirely overlooked by those writers who have of late years alluded to the distribution of species in the British islands.
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In addition to local advantages of this nature, I have had the satisfaction of seeing and examining the greater number of the collections, public and private, in Scotland - a privilege which while it has enabled me to trace the distribution of some of the less common species, gives me an opportunity of estimating the correctness of previous records Of their occurrence. Thus the Grey Shrike, Great Spotted Woodpecker, and Shore Lark, formerly represented as rare, are now found to be almost regular winter visitants in considerable numbers, and scattered over a large tract of country, although making their first appearance in the north eastern districts of Scotland; while the Hobby, Wryneck, Tree Sparrow, and some other species formerly looked upon as mere stragglers into Scotland, are now known to occupy breeding stations even in the western counties.
I have also carefully looked into the records of the Older Scottish writers, scientific and otherwise, from some of which it is evident that birds recently announced as new to Scotland were long ago found in different localities north of the Tweed. In Don''s ''fauna of Forfarshire,'' for example, several species such as the Red-backed Shrike, Nuthatch, etc., are catalogued as having occurred in that county as far back as the beginning Of the present century records which appear to have been entirely overlooked by those writers who have of late years alluded to the distribution of species in the British islands.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author(s) - Robert Gray
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ISBN - 9780331326338
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Page Count - 563
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