BY JAMES EDMUND HARTING, F.L.S., F.Z.S.
AUTHOR OF “A HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS,” “THE ORNITHOLOGY OF SHAKESPEARE,” ETC.
ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS BY THOMAS BEWICK, HARVEY, AND OTHERS.
LONDON:
BICKERS AND SON, 1, LEICESTER SQUARE.
1875.
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38 NATURAL HISTORY
in my outlet; but were frighted and persecuted by idle boys, who would never let them be at rest.[126]
THE HOOPOE.
Three gros-beaks (Loxia coccothraustes)[127] appeared some years ago in my fields, in the winter; one of which I shot: since that, now and then, one is occasionally seen in the same dead season.