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Buff-backed Heron 140
Sipiaceo Heron
Night Heron 145
Bittern 149
Little Bittern 155
American Bittern 100
White Stork 102
Black Stork 170
Spoonbill 173
Ibis 177
Curlew 1SJ
Esquimaux Curlew |N>
Whimbrel 1S7
Spotted Redshank 190
Redshank 194
Green Sandpiper . liM
Wood Sandpiper 203
Common Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper .211
Grccnshank 21 : i
Avocet 217
Stilt --'
Bhick-tailecl Godwit 221
liar-tailed Godwit 227
Buff 231
Woodcock 237
Great Snipe
Common Snipe
Jack S„ip.> 2rf
Sabine's Snipe "
Brown Snipe 26-
H I S T O R Y
or
B R I T I S H B I R D S.
BLACK GROUSE.
0EIL1OG DU. GUUGIAU, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH.
BLACK GAME. BLACK COCK. GREY HEN, ( F E M A L E . )
Telrao lelrix, PENNANT. MONTAGU.
Urogallus minor, RAY. WILLUGHBY.
Trtrao—{Qucere, from the Hindoostanee, Teetur.) Tetrix—'From
the same to t h e same?'
' I T is a r e v e r e n d thing,' says Bacon, ' t o see an ancient castle or
b u i l d i n g not in decay, or to sec a fair timber tree sound and p e r fect;
how m u c h more to behold an ancient family which h a t h stood
against t h e waves a n d weathers of time.' While we u t t e r a ' L a m e n t ,'
then, over the lost clan of t h e Capercailzie, let us at least boast
ourselves of his still surviving cousin, the largest of our present
game fowl, conspicuous for h i s size and j e t b l a c k plumage—a noble
bird.
Black Grouse arc common in Russia, Siberia, and L a p l a n d , and
are found in Germany, Poland, Holland, France, Switzerland, and
I t a l y along the Alps.
I n Yorkshire they are tolerably plentiful in some woods near
Sheffield, and one was c a p t u r e d in a street of t h a t town, about t en
o'clock at n i g h t , in the winter of 1843; one was shot at Kebden
Bridge, in May, 1842, o t h e r s near there also, one near Heptonstall,
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