Our Summer Migrants

THE NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE, IN THE COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON.

Reading edition

BY THE REV. GILBERT WHITE, M.A.

THE STANDARD EDITION BY E. T. BENNETT.

Thoroughly revised, with additional Notes,

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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in my outlet; but were frighted and persecuted by idle boys, who would never let them be at rest.[126]

Illustration from Our Summer Migrants An Account of the Migratory Birds Which Pass the Summer in the British Islands.

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.

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · The hoopoe is an irregular spring and autumn visitant to this country. It has occasionally nested here, and would do so, no doubt, more freq Note 2 · Coccothraustes vulgaris of modern systematists.