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Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Identifier: cu31924000047815 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE SHORT-TOED LARK. Alauda brachydXctyla, Leisler. The Short-toed Lark is a rare wanderer to England, and the authenticated instances of its occurrence appear to be:—one near Shrewsbury, two near Brighton, one near Southampton, one on the Scilly Islands, one near Cambridge, and one in South Breydon Marshes, Norfolk—all in autumn; and one killed near Brighton in April 1858 by a person who saw it alight and begin dusting itself in the road. On July 27th 1888, Mr. Cooper, the taxidermist, of Radnor Street, E.C., showed me a live bird said to have been taken at Amberley, Sussex, on the i8th of that month. In Ireland one was obtained on the Black-rock light-house, co. Mayo, on October nth 1890, and was sent to Mr. R. M. Barrington in the flesh. Although this species has been recorded as a visitor to Heligoland, it can only be considered a straggler to Northern or even Central Germany, Belgium, or France north of Paris ; but at Blois the late Sir Edward Newton found it breeding, and it is a regular summer- visitant to the districts further south, though said to emigrate in winter. In the Spanish Peninsula it is abundant and—in the southern portions at least—resident; it is so also in North-western Africa, but in the north-east, as far south as Abyssinia, it is only found in winter and on passage, when it is very numerous, and occurs in large flocks. To Italy it is only a summer-visitor, although abundant in the south, but in Malta it is sedentary, and it is found

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