Identifier: picturesofbirdli00lodg (find matches)
Title: Pictures of bird life : on woodland meadow, mountain and marsh
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Lodge, R. B
Subjects: Birds -- Pictorial works
Publisher: London : S. H. Bousfield
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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other record of this bird in Europe. A specimen of the Siberian Meadow-lnmtino- (E)iil)cri:,(icioidcs) was shot at Flamborough in Xo\ember, 189G, and hasalso ne^er been obtained in any part of Europe before, noteven in Heligoland. It would be interesting, if such a thing were possible, tofind out what cause led these wanderers from the north ofAsia to visit this country. P^or the true home of the latterspecies seems to be in Turkestan, Siberia, Mongolia, Man-churia, and Korea, and over a great part of China * (Saunders). Three specimens of the Desert-wheatear (Sd.ricold dcscrti),a native of Xorth African deserts, have been obtained inEngland. One of tliese is described as a young bird (Saunders).But if other competent observers are correct, Dixon is wrong,both in his facts and in his deductions from them. For thelate Herr Gatke, who studied the migratory movements ofbirds for fifty years at Heligoland, that wonderful naturalobservatory of bird life, altogether denies that the majority
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Embcriza schaniclus) and Nest. 106 Pictures of Bird Life of accidental ^isitors arc iniiiia-ture : in fact, from a list furiiisliedby him to JNJr. Cordeaiix, an oAcr-whelniing majority were adults, andin a letter to the Zoologist. INIay,1898, lie writes: Ornithologistsouoht to oive up the worn-out mythof inexperienced youno- birds de-pendent on the teaching and guidanceof their experienced parents ; for themoment tlie young are tolerably wellable to take care of themselves parents and young separate,and become total strangers to each other. Jlie first perfectplumage of tlie latter being completed, in a few weeks theystart of their own accord, and entirely by tliemsehes, on their first

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