. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. 488 PTEROCLIDj?:;.. PALLAS'S SAND-GROUSE. SyrrhAptes parad6xus (Pallas). No event in the annals of ornithology has excited more interest than the irruptions of Pallas's Sand-Grouse. These, as regards the British Islands, were first called to notice by a few appearances in Norfolk, Carnarvonshire and Kent, in July and November 1859; while several examples were obtained on the Continent during the same year. In 1863 the ripples of a far larger wave of invasion spread westward over Europe; Heligoland being reached by May 2ist, the date on which our
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. 488 PTEROCLIDj?:;.. PALLAS'S SAND-GROUSE. SyrrhAptes parad6xus (Pallas). No event in the annals of ornithology has excited more interest than the irruptions of Pallas's Sand-Grouse. These, as regards the British Islands, were first called to notice by a few appearances in Norfolk, Carnarvonshire and Kent, in July and November 1859; while several examples were obtained on the Continent during the same year. In 1863 the ripples of a far larger wave of invasion spread westward over Europe; Heligoland being reached by May 2ist, the date on which our first visitors of that year were shot in Northumberland, out of a flock of fourteen. Next day about twenty reached Staffordshire, and numbers were subsequently found in many parts of the British Islands; the majority on the eastern side, from Kent to Caithness, and a few alighted in the Shetlands. Inland, as well as in the south of England, occurrences were not want- ing ; and, while they were less plentiful in the west, it was in Pem- brokeshire that the last survivor was shot, in February 1864. One bird even wandered to Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, and several were killed in Ireland, some of them as far west as co. Donegal. All. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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