Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer in the British IslandsBickers and Son, 1875 - 336 páginas |
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... Blyth has found it as far to the eastward as Calcutta . Old English authors , who knew the Garden Warbler as the Greater Pettychaps , gave the Chiff - chaff the name of the Lesser Pettychaps , presumably from its general resemblance to ...
... Blyth has found it as far to the eastward as Calcutta . Old English authors , who knew the Garden Warbler as the Greater Pettychaps , gave the Chiff - chaff the name of the Lesser Pettychaps , presumably from its general resemblance to ...
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... Blyth has expressed the opinion ' that the Nightingale migrates almost due north and south , deviating but a very little indeed either to the right or left . " There are none in Brittany , " he says , " nor in the Channel Islands , 1 ...
... Blyth has expressed the opinion ' that the Nightingale migrates almost due north and south , deviating but a very little indeed either to the right or left . " There are none in Brittany , " he says , " nor in the Channel Islands , 1 ...
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... Blyth , however , was of a dif- ferent opinion . Criticizing the above remarks , he wrote : - " The only birds known to me that breed in their winter quarters are two species of Sand- martin ( Cotyle riparia and C. sinensis ) . In India ...
... Blyth , however , was of a dif- ferent opinion . Criticizing the above remarks , he wrote : - " The only birds known to me that breed in their winter quarters are two species of Sand- martin ( Cotyle riparia and C. sinensis ) . In India ...
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... Blyth replied : - ( 6 According to my experience of Hirundo rustica ( and I have had the best opportunities for observation ) , it decidedly does not breed in its winter quarters . Some birds of this species , which pass their non ...
... Blyth replied : - ( 6 According to my experience of Hirundo rustica ( and I have had the best opportunities for observation ) , it decidedly does not breed in its winter quarters . Some birds of this species , which pass their non ...
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... Blyth , who saw it in the following December , pronounced it to be without doubt a female Orphean Warbler . As the bird when caught was unable to fly , it is evident that a pair must have nested in the neighbourhood . I have seen a nest ...
... Blyth , who saw it in the following December , pronounced it to be without doubt a female Orphean Warbler . As the bird when caught was unable to fly , it is evident that a pair must have nested in the neighbourhood . I have seen a nest ...
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Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1877 |
Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1875 |
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amongst Anthus appearance April arrival Blackcap Blyth breed British Birds British Islands Canon Tristram Chiff-chaff claw coast colour common congeners Cuckoo eastward eggs Egypt England Europe feathers Flycatcher frequently Garden Warbler genus Grasshopper Warbler grey ground habits hatched haunts Hist Hoopoe Howard Saunders Ibis India insects instance Ireland June Landrail Lapland Lesser Whitethroat Lord Lilford male Malta Martin Meadow Pipit Mediterranean migration month naturalists neighbourhood nest Nightingale Nightjar Norfolk North Africa noticed observed occasionally occurrence Ornithology Palestine palustris plumage Professor Newton rare Redstart Reed Warbler regular summer remarked resembles Rock Pipit says Scotland season Sedge Warbler seen September Shetland shot song southward species specimens spotted spring and autumn Stonechat strepera summer migrants summer visitant Sussex Swallow Swift tail throughout tion Tree Pipit trees Wheatear Whinchat Willow Warbler Willow Wren wind wing winter quarters Wood Warbler Yarrell Yellow Wagtail Zoologist