 It is known to breed in nearly all the southern counties from Cornwall to Kent inclusive, especially in Hampshire (and the Isle of Wight), Surrey and Sussex ; sparingly in the valley of the Thames, and perhaps in some of the Midland counties ; while it...  An Illustrated Manual of British Birds - Стр. 59авторы: Howard Saunders - 1899 - Страниц: 776Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Jean Allan Owen, George Simonds Boulger - 1902 - Страниц: 508
...described, as Mr Howard Saunders says, as "a resident southern species, chiefly frequenting furze-covered commons, and apparently extending its range both westward and northward of late years." In the valley of the Thames it is not very common, and we hear very little of it in the Midland and... | |
 | 1909 - Страниц: 590
...his ' Manual ' (1899), gives the following account of its distribution in the breeding season : — " It is known to breed in nearly all the southern counties...and undoubtedly nests in Suffolk and Norfolk." (It will be seen from the above extract that Mr. C. Dixon's account of the nesting of this species in the... | |
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