Natural history and antiquities of Selborne (1875)
White, Gilbert, 1720-1793, Buckland, Francis T. (Francis Trevelyan), 1826-1880, Selborne, Roundell Palmer, Earl of, 1812-1895, Delamotte, Philip H. (Philip Henry), 1821-1889, James Burn & Company, binder · London : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 93
E. 43 (enanthe) does not quit England, it certainly shifts places; for about harvest they are not to be found, where there was before creat plenty of them.” This well accounts for the vast quan- tities that are caught about that time on the South downs near Lewes, where they are esteemed a… … THE WHEATEAR. with those parts) above two or three at a time: for they are never gregarious. They may perhaps migrate in general ; and, for that purpose, draw towards the coast of Sussex in autumn: but that they do not all withdraw I am sure: because I see a few stragglers in many counties, at all…
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