tain to the fact—strongly illustrative of its being nioidt volant, as Polo saysit is—that it appeared in England in 1859, and since then, at least up to 1863, con-tinued to arrive annually in pairs or companies in nearly all parts of our island, fromPenzance to Caithness. And Gould states that it… … Syrrhaptes Pallasii. There are plates of Syrrhaptes in Raddes Reisen iin Siiden von Ost-Sibirien, Bd. II.;in vol. V. of Temminck, Planches Coloriees, PI. 95 ; in Gould, as above; in Gray,Genera of Birds, vol. iii. p. 517 (life size); and in the Ibis for April, i860. From thelast our cut is taken.…
Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 · Polo family · Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 · Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? · Voyages and travels · Mongols · Inscriptions, Chinese
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