the past ten years, in all seasons, I have been constantly in touch with the high moors and adjoining slopes of the Pennines, and particularly south-eastern Lancashire and the Peak District to its southern limit in Staffordshire. My records of birds on this area in winter have been surprisingly scanty, and would have remained so had I continued to overlook the importance of a type of grassland cov...
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