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Notice sur la Loddigesia mirabilis (Bourc.).

1881; Zoological Society of London; Volume: 49; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1096-3642.1881.tb01340.x

0370-2774

L. Taczanowski, J. Stolzmann.,

Plant Parasitism and Resistance

ONLODDIGESIA. MIRABILIS. 827not reach their breeding-places, and have a suspicion, from the behaviour of the birds, that they had ah-eady hatched." The Darter I take to be undoubtedly the African bird ; and if so, this is a very remarkable northward extension of its hitherto known range.I was told that the birds are never seen there in winter, and that they leave as soon as their young are fledged." The Darter is not mentioned by Shelley as found by him in Egypt.Von Heuglin gives Lake Tchad, Senegambia, the Niger, Gaboon, as well as South Africa, as its habitat.Pollen and Van Dam state that the Indian, not the African, species is found in Madagascar.Schlegel mentions a specimen at Leydeu from Sennaar, which is the nearest point to Antioch where I can trace it.Altogether, us Dr. Sclater and Mr. Forbes have pointed out to me, its occurrence in Northwestern Syria is most extraordinary."Prof. Newton, V.P., exhibited the specimen oi Emberisa riistica, recorded by Mr. .William Eagle Clarke in the current number of 'The Zoologist' (p.465) as having been shot at Easington, on the coast of Yorkshire, on the 1 7th of September last, remarking that it was only tbe second example of the species reported to have occurred in this country, and also that on the very same day another specimen was obtained in Heligoland by Herr Gatke, C