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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
A History of the County of Somerset
… lofty cliffs, but there are a few bold headlands such as Brean Down and Hurlstone Point, crumbling slopes wooded … Channel some 256 feet high and three miles off the end of Brean Down, both the herring and lesser black-backed gulls … Corvus corax, Linn. Resident. A pair nest annually on Brean Down, and the species may often be seen in the extreme …
A History of the County of Somerset
… ought to be found Arge galatea, L. Scarce at Bedminster, Brean Down and Clevedon, where it was once common. Still … near Bath, Bridgwater, Frome, Taunton, Wells, Weston, Brean Down, the Mendips, etc. Scarce near Bristol, Clevedon, … specimens of this pretty little species was captured on Brean Down in 1858 by Mr. Crotch Phytometra nea, Hub., …