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Identifier: historybirdsEurIIBree (find matches)
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 ...
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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pi. 102. 200 GRANIVOR^. Family ALAUDIBJE. Genus Alauda. (Linnceus.) SIBERIAN LAEK. Alauda Sihirica. Alauda Sihirica, calanclra ajfinis, leucoptera, FJuleremos Siherica, JMelanocuryplia, leucoptera,Alouette de Siherie,Sibirische Lerche, Gmelin; Syst., (1788.) SCHLEGEL; (1844.) Degland; (1849.)Pallas; Iter. App., Wo. 15.Latham; Ind.Pallas; Zoog. i, p. 518, No. 147, pi. 33, f. 2.Blakistojn, in Zoologist, vol. XV, p. 5509.Ketserling and Blasius; Die Wirbelt, p. 37, (1840.)Bonaparte.Of the French.Op the Germans. Specific Characters.—First primary longest, but nearly equal tosecond; third about as mueli shorter than the second as the fifthis less than the fourth; the fourth seven-tenths of an inch shorterthan the third. Tail very narrow, the outer feathers white; hinderclaw one-fifth longer than the toe. Length eight inches and one-fifth; carpus to tip four inches andseven-tenths; beak three-fifths of an inch long by three-tenthsbroad; hind claw half an inch to two-fifths of an inch long.
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Mrt (^ m % 4. SIBERIAK LARK. 201 This bird was thought by Pallas and Latliam to bea variety of A. calandra. It is liowever a very distinctspecies, and tlie rounder form of the beak, the muchslighter figure, the more pointed wing, and the differencein comparative length of the fourth primary, remove italtogether from that bird. The Siberian Lark is an inhabitant, of Siberia, Tar-tary, and Southern Russia, and rarely of Poland. It isalso included by Captain Blakiston among the birdsshot by him in the Crimea.—Zoologist, 1857, p. 5509. Its habits are described as similar to those of therest of the family. By the kindness of Mr. Tristram,I am able to give a figure not only of the bird butits Q^^, both of which that gentleman received fromDr. MiddendoriF. The bird has at first sight much the appearance ofa Bunting. Captain Blakiston thus describes his meetingwith it.~Zoologist, 5509:— A few days after the 5th. of January I was againon the qui vim, as a friend told me he had seen someBun

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