Identifier: birdsofyorkshire01nels (find matches)
Title: The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Nelson, Thomas Hudson, d. 1916 Clarke, William Eagle, 1853-1938 Boyes, F
Subjects: Birds -- England Yorkshire
Publisher: London : A. Brown
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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is 325. The Norfolk list, given in " Trans. N., given in Trans. N. and N. Nat.
Soc." (1885, 1886, 1887), included 288 species—to which
must be added 27 which have occurred in the county
since that time, for the names of which I am indebted
to Messrs. J. H. Gurney and Thomas Southwell of Norwich,
making a total of 315. The list given in Hancock's " Birds
of Northumberland and Durham," published in 1874, com-
prises 268 species. But applying the same rules as are
employed for the exclusion of doubtful species from the
Yorkshire list, the total is reduced to 266 for Northumberland
and Durham.
Since the publication of Hancock's catalogue, however,
the following species must be omitted from the list:—the
Purple gallinule, Virginian Colin, Egyptian and Canada
Geese, and the Blue-tailed Bee-eater (which latter occurred
in Yorkshire, see p. 284). Eleven additional species which
have occurred in Northumberland and Durham are:—the Tree
Warbler, Icterine Warbler, White Wagtail, Rustic Buntingn
Little Bunting, Alpine Swift, Spotted Eagle, Crane, Red-
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Snowden Sleights, the last of the Yorkshire wildfowlers,
with his armoury.
S. H. Smith.

INTRODUCTION. XXXIX

necked Phalarope, Kentish Dotterel, Sabines Gull. The
Mute Swan may also be added to the residents, making a
total of 275.
The species excluded from the Norfolk list are :—Pallas's
Shrike, Grey-headed Yellow Wagtail, Red-barred Crossbill
(L. rubifasciata), Eagle Owl, Pelican, Great White Heron,
Little Egret, Buff-backed Heron, Canada Goose, Egyptian
Goose, Harlequin Duck, Rock Dove, Hooded Merganser,
Virginian Colin, Green-backed Gallinule, Cream-coloured
Courser, Eastern Golden Plover, Sabines Snipe (variety),
Wilson's Petrel, Ringed Guillemot (variety), all admitted on
insufficient evidence.
The species which have been added to the Norfolk fauna
during the past twenty years include :—Siberian Stonechat,
Aquatic Warbler, Pallass Warbler, Yellow-browed Warbler,
White Wagtail, Tawny Pipit, Water Pipit, Red-breasted
Flycatcher, Citril Finch, Holboell's Redpoll, Northern or
Russian Bullfinch, Two-barred Crossbill, Yellow-breasted

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