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Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886 Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, engraver
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...
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en shotby Mr. Tristram, in the Northern Sahara, December2nd., 1856. The egg is .also from a specimen taken bythe same gentleman in that locality. The bird has been figured by Temminck and Laugier,pi. color. 244, fig. 2, from an Arabian specimen. 2 D 19!^ GEANIVOR^.Family ALAUDIDJE. Genus Alaijda. (Linnmus.) Section III.—Larks with thick beaks. BLACK LAEK. Alauda Tartarica. Alauda Tartarica, mutahilis, nigra,Melanocorypha Tartarica, Calandra nigra, Alouette negre,Steppen lercher. Pallas; Voy, (1776.)Gmelin; Syst., (1788.)Latham; Ind., (1790.)TEMMiifCK; Man., (1820.) ViEILLOT. CUVIER. LessON. schinz. schlegel. Degland. Gmelin; Syst., (1788.) Falk; p. 796. Ch. Bonapaete; List, (1838.) Keysebling and Blasius; (1840.)Dubois; Ois. de la Belg. Liv. 73, p. 102 a.Of the Feench.Oe the Germans. Specific Characters.—J^o false primary; the three first true onesnearly equal; the fourth eight-tenths, and the fifth seven-tenths,■of an inch shorter than the third; claw one-fifth longer than toe.
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BLACK LVr.K. 193 Beak one-tentli of an inch longer than broad, Phimage black inspring, yellow grey in the autumn, witb the wings and tail black.Length of male specimen sent me by Mr. Tristram, seven inchesand three-quarters; carpus to tip five inches and a quarter. The Black Lark is an inliabitant of nortlicrn climes.In Europe it is found in tlie precincts of the Wolgaand Istycli Rivers in Russia. It has been capturedrarelj and accidentally in Germany, and still more rarelyin Belgium. On the authority of Dubois we have therecord of one being trapped in the neighbourhood ofBrussels, in 1850, and which he found in the marketfor sale. The person who caught it assured M. Duboisthat there was a large flock, but he was only able toget one. M. Croegaert is also quoted by M. Dubois ashaving taken one in the neighbourhood of Anvers, in1852, and kept it alive during several weeks. Accordingto Pallas it is found in the wild and barren wastes ofTartary, between the Volga and laik Rivers, whence i

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