. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. CORVIDjE. 233. THE NUTCRACKER. NxJciFRAGA CARYOCATACTES (LinnSEUs). The Nutcracker is an irregular visitor to England and Wales, but about thirty fairly authenticated occurrences are on record, princi- pally in the southern half of our island, and all of them, so far as is known, in autumn. In Scotland one was shot at Invergarry and one in Orkney, both in October 1868; while Sir Herbert E. Max- well has recorded an occurrence in Wigtownshire in 1891. As yet there is no evidence that the bird has visited Ireland. C. L. Brehm and others have recog
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. CORVIDjE. 233. THE NUTCRACKER. NxJciFRAGA CARYOCATACTES (LinnSEUs). The Nutcracker is an irregular visitor to England and Wales, but about thirty fairly authenticated occurrences are on record, princi- pally in the southern half of our island, and all of them, so far as is known, in autumn. In Scotland one was shot at Invergarry and one in Orkney, both in October 1868; while Sir Herbert E. Max- well has recorded an occurrence in Wigtownshire in 1891. As yet there is no evidence that the bird has visited Ireland. C. L. Brehm and others have recognised several subspecies of Nutcracker. A form with a stout bill (as in the engraving) breeds in the coniferous forests south of lat. 67° in Scandinavia, some of the islands of the Baltic, West Russia, East Prussia, the Hartz Mountains, the Jura, the Black Forest, the French, Swiss and Italian Alps, and eastward, by the Carpathians, to Transylvania. This form is said to be resident. In Siberia, from the Ob and the Yenesei eastward—^perhaps to portions of China—occurs a form with a slender bill and with a greater developement of white spots;. 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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