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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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5 C£cdii THE DESERT-WHEATEAR. SaxIcola DiiSERTi, Riippell. Although the Desert-Wheatear has a still more southern habitat than the preceding species, it has undoubtedly been obtained on three occasions in Great Britain. The first example, a male in autumn plumage, shot on the 26th November 1880, near Alloa in Clackmannanshire, was sent for exhibition at a meeting of the Zoological Society (P. Z. S. 1881, p. 453), by its owner, Mr. J. J. Dalgleish. The second, a bird in female plumage, obtained on the Holderness coast, Yorkshire, October 17th 1885, was sent for exhibition by Mr. W. Eagle Clarke (P. Z. S. 1885, p. 835), and is in the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney. A third—apparently a young male—was shot near Arbroath on December 28th 1887, and was exhibited at a meeting of tne Zoological Society of London on March 6th 1888, on behalf of the late Lt.-Col. H. M. Drummond-Hay, who published details in 'The Ibis,' 1888, p. 283. Three wanderers of this species have been obtained on Heligo- land : a male on October 26th 1856 ; a female on October 4th 1857 (these being originally and erroneously recorded as ^. stapa-

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