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1 2 1
1 24
1 2 7
1 2 9
1 1 1
1 1 3
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1 1 9
1 5 2
1 5 3
1 5 S
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1Ü7
1 7 1
1 7 1
1 7 8
1 S 2
1 8 1
1 S 7
1 9 0
1 9 2
1 9 1
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Sabine's Gull
Boss's Gull
Little Gull .
Buonaparte's Gull
Masked Gull
Black-headed Gull
Laughing Gull
Ivory Gull
Common Gull
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Great Black-backed Gu
Herring Gull
Glaucous Gull
Kittiwake
Skua
Pomerine Skua
Richardson's Skua
Buffon's Skua
Cinereous Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Dusky Petrol .
Capped Petrel
Fulmar
Bulwer's Petrel .
Wilson's Petrel
Beach's Petrel
Stormy Petrel .
H I S T O R Y
OF
B R I T I S H B I R D S.
GREAT CRESTED GREBE.
GWACH GORNIOG. TINTROED, OF THE ANCIENT K R I T 1 S H.
TIPPET G HE HE. CARGOOSE. LOON.
Colymbus cris/a/us, LINN.«US.
Podiccps cristatuS) I'KXN.AN I . IUOXTAGU.
Colymbus—A Diver. Cristatus—Crested.
T h e Great C r e s t e d G r e b e is v e r y plentiful i n H o l l a n d and Germany,
and belongs also to Iceland, Sweden and Norway, Italy, F r a n c e , and
Russia. In Asia it has been observed about t h e Caucasus and i n Siberia,
Asia Minor and Japan. Also in Africa, both north and south. It
belongs likewise to N o r t h America, advancing southwards from the
F u r Countries, as far as Mexico, t h r o u g h the States.
This singular-looking b i r d is indigenous in many parts of the country,
videlicet, in L i n c o l n s h i r e , Norfolk, S h r o p s h i r e , and Wales. Its occurrence
has been noticed in Cumberland. In Y o r k s h i r e , one "was proc
u r e d near Doncaster, the b e g i n n i n g of 1 8 3 7 , o n e or two near Sheffield,
others at S u t t o n - o n - D e r w e n t and H o r n s e a Merc, where they used to
breed. They arc sometimes obtained in Oxfordshire, in the neighbourh
o o d of "Weston-on-thc-Grern. One in B e r k s h i r e , near Hungerford,
in F e b r u a r y , 1 8 0 8 . In H a m p s h i r e , one was seen on the Southampton
W a t e r , the end of March, 1 8 4 9 ; t h r e e shot in the winter of 18G(>-7.
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