A dictionary of British birds : reprinted from Montagu's Ornithological dictionary, and incorporating the additional species described by Selby; Yarrell, in all three editions, and in natural-history journals / compiled and edited by Edward Newman.
- George Montagu
- Date:
- 1866
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A dictionary of British birds : reprinted from Montagu's Ornithological dictionary, and incorporating the additional species described by Selby; Yarrell, in all three editions, and in natural-history journals / compiled and edited by Edward Newman. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![nest, but deposits its eggs, to the number of nine or ten, in the hole of a decayed tree, on the rotten wood; these are per- fectly white, weighing about thirty-seven grains. Supplement. — How far this .species is found northward in England we have not been able to clearly ascertain, but, as Mr. Bewick speaks of having found emmets in the gizzard of one he dissected, we may conclude it is met with in Northumber- land, though pi'obably rare so far north. It is more common in the eastern than in the western counties, and we obseiwed it near the coast in Lincolnshire; but we believe it is rai’ely found, except where there are old and decayed pollard elm trees. With us it is by no means so gene- rally diffused as the Cnckow; nor do we believe it e.xtends so far north on the Continent as that bird. It is, however, known in Asia and Africa, as well as in Europe. Is said to sometimes make a nest of dry grass ; but the eggs, which wo have more than once taken, were placed on the bare decayed wood in the hole of a tree. Wynkemel.—See Gallinule, Spotted. Y. Yaffle, or Yaffler. — See Woodpecker, Green. Yamip?^' I Godwit, Common. [Yellow Ammer.]—See Bunting, Yellow. Yellow Bird.—See Oriole, [Golden.] Yellow Bird, Little.—See Wren, Yellow. ^ySw hS£ } See Bunting, Yellow. [Yellowlegged Gull, — Dr. Fleming calls the Lesser Blackbacked Gull by this name.] [Yellow Owl. — Bewick’s name for the White Owl, in early editions.] [Yellow Plover.—One of the names of the Golden Plover.] [Yellow Wagtail,—See Wagtail, Yellow.] [Yellow Warbler.—See W'ren, Yellow.] Yellow Yowley.—See Bunting, Yellow. Yolpar.—See Avoset. f](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28089935_0423.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
