A catalogue of birds, observed in south-eastern Durham, and in north-western Cleveland : with an appendix, containing the classification and nomenclature of all the species included therein / by John Hogg.
- John Hogg
- Date:
- 1845
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A catalogue of birds, observed in south-eastern Durham, and in north-western Cleveland : with an appendix, containing the classification and nomenclature of all the species included therein / by John Hogg. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![tain parts of Devonshire, nor Wales, on account very probably of the great humidity, and quantity of rain, which annually occur in those districts. 42. Garden Warbler, Great Petty chaps, Curruca hortensis. Fre- quents gardens in summer. Both this bird and the blackcap are said to be very destructive to fruit. The Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert states that Bewick is wrong in making the passerine warbler an English spe- ! cies; that which he has figured being only Sylvia hortensis {Temm.) and not the true passerine warbler. Mr. Yarrell has confirmed this, and in his synonyms at p. 285 (vol. i.) has correctly refeiTed both of Bewick’s birds to the present species. Its admirable song is well f characterized by the latter author, as “ wild, rapid, and irregular in time and tone; but the rich depth is wonderful for so small a throat, approaching in deep mellowness even to that of the blackbird.” i 43. Common Whitethroat, Curruca cinerea. 44. Willow Warbler, Sylvia trocMlus. A delicate and elegant bird, not uncommon ; coming here before the former species. The willow i wrens, or Sylviae, are so much alike in their general appearance, that I it requires a skilful observer to distinguish their specific differences, i Obs. — I have heard occasionally, in the early spring, a small bird uttering a monosyllabic note, which is like the sound of ching, ching, ching, and which I take to be a species of Sylvia not described in i Yarrell’s ‘ British Birds,’ (i. 310). It is evidently the same bird as Mr. Herbert has designated the ching ching, and which may, I think, he named the smaller willow-wren, perhaps the S. rufa of Latham. Mr. Herbert says that it migrates hither, and is not unfrequent in some I places in Yorkshire; but he considers Messrs. Selby and Jenyns have I wrongly applied the specific name Hippolai's [Lath.], as a synonym to the chiff-chaff. The last author also has added rufa [Temm.) as another synonym, which is likewise incorrect. Moreover, the S. lo- quax [Herb.) or chiff-chaff, whose song is dissyllabic, and sounds like a loud repetition of those two words, I have never heard in this > northern district. I 45. Common Golden-crested Regulus, Regulus cristatus. Some re- i main with us all the year. Mr. Selby (Cat. 257) relates that vast num- i bers migrate from the north of Europe. It seems really wonderful that f so diminutive a bird should be capable of such a long flight. For this i reason, the common people of Hartlepool name it “ tot o’er seas.” It ! lives chiefly on the insects that are to be found on the fir and larch; ! and constructs a largish and somewhat coarsely built nest, which is pen- dent from the under side of a branch of a fir. The golden crests have](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22350676_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
