CICHLOSELYS S IBIRICUS
Siberian Th:
Turdus Sibiriens, Grael. edit. Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 815.
— leucocillus, Pall. Faun. Ross., tom. i. p. 450.
auroreus, Pall. Faun. Ross., tom. i. p. 448.
W h e t h e r the earlier British ornithologists were less observant th a n th o s e o f the present
not easily solved. In all probability they were, and many strange b ird s visited these is
and, after a b n ef sojourn, departed again to the countries whence they came ; yet we d o r
of such occurrences in the works o f the earlier writers on our avifanna. However this mav 1
very many species have visited us o f late years both from the east and the wes
been known in the times o f Gilbert White, Montagu, and Bewick. With regai
w hich (
at leas
which have occurred here during the
by some unwonted cause to wander w
Erythrosterna parva, Carpodaeus aythi
paradoxus have seldom, if ever before
to refer to the page, I before 1 have :
years ago, th a t a work • the “ bird
t twenty years, I suspect that very mam
ward, and that such species as Oreociiu
s, Easpisa winnocephala, Emberiaa pusu
rid occasional visits to the British Islan
ie where stated in my ‘ Birds of Europe,
f Great Britain could scarcely be com
i'<! therein, inasmuch as one or other •>.
i that the idea was not fallacious is evil
e now to add the Sib*
as shot by a Mr. Dre
1855, durii
eh I ha
Esq., i
in our islands at some time or o th er; and t
fine example, now in the possession of W.
near Guildford, in Surrey, in the beginnin
apparently a female, is faithfully represented in the upper figure o f 1
figured from an eastern specimen. After a moment’s reflection, s<
might be naturally expected, since there are many instances of the b
the European continent, as will bg seen from the following extra-:
Europe not found in the British I s l a n d s—
“ This bird is, as its name implies, an inhabitant of Siberia; but
times in Europe to merit a place in its avifituna.
“ We have the authority o f Pallas for its occurrence in Southe
the
Russ
G«
> having bee
Jaubert,
e. Home’
of Profes
menti«»
his 'Richesses Ornithologiques,
r has described it as T. atrocyan
nable ‘ Bird
cient numbr
distribution of
in Blaki
i)ally dui