Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Identifier: cu31924000047815 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE LAND-RAIL. Cr£x prat^nsis, Bechstein. The Land-Rail, also known as the Corn-Crake, is widely dis- tributed in summer throughout the British Islands. It usually makes its appearance in the southern counties of England during the last ten days of April, though m Yorkshire and northward it is seldom heard till the first or second week in May, and only towards the end of that month in the Shetlands. Westward, it has been obtained in St. Kilda, and it is common in the Outer Hebrides, where it is probable that a few birds occasionally pass the winter. This is undoubtedly the case in Ireland, and, more rarely, in England ; but the majority have taken their departure before October. The bird may be found wherever there is grass-land. This species occasionally breeds in the Faeroes, but its occurrence in Iceland has not been authenticated, though an example was obtained in South Greenland in 1851 and another in May 1892. Individuals which had, no doubt, availed themselves of the assist- ance of vessels, have frequently been obtained of late years on the eastern sea-board of the United States; and in October 1847 one was shot in the Bermudas. As a wanderer the Land-Rail has been found in the Azores and Madeira, while in the southern countries of Europe

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