. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. TURDIN/E. 21. THE ISABELLINE WHEATEAR. SAXfCOLA ISABELLfNA, Riippell. My friend the Rev. H. A. Macpherson brought to me in the flesh for identification a bird shot by Mr. Thomas Mann, on a ploughed field and quite alorie, at AUonby, Cumberland, on nth November 1887 ; it proved to be the Isabelline Wheatear, and was exhibited at a meeting of the Zoological Society on December 6th. This south-eastern bird had not previously been recorded from Heligoland or any part of Western Europe, but it so closely re- sembles the female of the previous species
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. TURDIN/E. 21. THE ISABELLINE WHEATEAR. SAXfCOLA ISABELLfNA, Riippell. My friend the Rev. H. A. Macpherson brought to me in the flesh for identification a bird shot by Mr. Thomas Mann, on a ploughed field and quite alorie, at AUonby, Cumberland, on nth November 1887 ; it proved to be the Isabelline Wheatear, and was exhibited at a meeting of the Zoological Society on December 6th. This south-eastern bird had not previously been recorded from Heligoland or any part of Western Europe, but it so closely re- sembles the female of the previous species that it might easily escape notice. The specimen, a female, is figured above, and Mr. Macpherson subsequently presented it to the British Museum. The Isabelline Wheatear is an early sprmg-visitor to South-eastern Russia, especially the province of Astrachan and the arid plains of the Caspian, and to Asia Minor. From the above, after breeding, it takes its departure in autumn; but in Palestine, Egypt, Eastern Africa down to Somali- and Masai-land, Abyssinia, and Arabia, it appears to be a resident. Eastward it is found in summer across Asia—south of 56° N. and up to 10,000 feet above sea-level—to. 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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