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Identifier: birdsofbritish00cowa (find matches)
Title: The birds of the British Isles and their eggs
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Coward, T. A. (Thomas Alfred), 1867-1933
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Eggs Great Britain
Publisher: London New York : F. Warne
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ore a fresh than saltwater species and appears with some degree of regularity oncertain western waters, which it may eventually colonise. Theearlier history of its British nesting is obscure; the bestevidence is from Norfolk, and there is reason to believe that ithas nested in Oxford, Perth, and Ireland. How long the Welshcolony had existed before it was discovered in 1904 by Messrs.Cummings and Oldham is unknown, but when a few days laterI was able to join them we found that several pairs werenesting, and already had young. For obvious reasons wekept the locality secret, only showing it to Mr. O. V. Aplin,Prof. Newstead, and one or two others ; some years later itwas discovered. In 1918 at least two pairs established them-selves and brought off young on the reservoirs near Tring,where it is hoped they will be protected, though attempts havebeen made to rob the nests. The Eared Grebe is slightly smaller than the Slavonian, andwhen swimming is, like a Dabchick, very broad in the stern.
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