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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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PALLAS'S WILLOW-WARBLER. Ph\ll6scopus pror^gulus (Pallas). On October 31st, 1896, a specimen of this small Warbler was shot by Mr. Ramm, amongst the long grass by the sea-wall at Cley-next- the-Sea, Norfolk, and proved on dissection to be a female, probably adult. It was recorded by Mr. T. Southwell ('Zoologist,' 1896, p. 467), exhibited by Mr. Dresser at a meeting of the Zoological Society of London on December ist, and full details have since appeared in 'The Zoologist' for 1897, pp. 5-12; as well as in the Tr. Norw. Soc, vi. pp. 210-290, from Mr. Dresser, who has added valuable notes on other rare Warblers. Pallas's Warbler was for some time known to us by Gould's trivial name of " Dalmatian Regulus," commemorative of the reported place of capture of the first European example, in 1829. Hancock's Yellow-browed Warbler, shot near Newcastle in 1838, was supposed to be this species until 1863, when Swinhoe pointed out the error, and Hancock subsequently rectified his identification (' Ibis ' 1867, p. 252). On October 6th, 1845, Glaus Aeuckens, of Heligoland (then a lad), killed a small Warbler with a stone, completely crushing it, but he brought an undamaged wing and " a portion of the lower back with part of the lemon-yellow plumage still adhering to it" to the late H. Gatke, and in 1879 comparison with a Siberian skin of Pallas's Warbler showed that the wanderer to Heligoland was that species. Another was watched at short distance by Aeuckens and his nephew, on October 29th, 1875, but the bird was sheltering under the edge of the cliff from a violent east wind, and

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