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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... Hoopoe 249 The Golden Oriole 262 The Red - backed Shrike 276 The Turtle - dove 282 The Landrail or Corncrake 288 General Observations 299 Conclusion 330 Index 335 THE WHEATEAR . NE of the earliest of our feathered X CONTENTS .
... Hoopoe 249 The Golden Oriole 262 The Red - backed Shrike 276 The Turtle - dove 282 The Landrail or Corncrake 288 General Observations 299 Conclusion 330 Index 335 THE WHEATEAR . NE of the earliest of our feathered X CONTENTS .
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... may be the northern- most limit in summer of those birds which have passed the winter many degrees further south than have the migrants from Europe . • A THE HOOPOE . MONGST the large number of 248 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
... may be the northern- most limit in summer of those birds which have passed the winter many degrees further south than have the migrants from Europe . • A THE HOOPOE . MONGST the large number of 248 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
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... HOOPOE . MONGST the large number of migratory birds which resort to the British Islands in spring for the purpose of ... Hoopoe is one of these . Not a summer elapses without the appearance , and , I regret to say , the destruction ...
... HOOPOE . MONGST the large number of migratory birds which resort to the British Islands in spring for the purpose of ... Hoopoe is one of these . Not a summer elapses without the appearance , and , I regret to say , the destruction ...
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... Hoopoe will breed in this country , if unmolested , is evidenced by the recorded instances in which it has done so where suffi- cient protection has been afforded it during the nesting season . Montagu states , in his “ Orni- thological ...
... Hoopoe will breed in this country , if unmolested , is evidenced by the recorded instances in which it has done so where suffi- cient protection has been afforded it during the nesting season . Montagu states , in his “ Orni- thological ...
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... Hoopoe lives a good deal on the ground where it finds its chief food , which consists of beetles of various kinds , and their larvæ , cater- pillars , and ants . It is especially partial to dung - beetles , and may often be seen in ...
... Hoopoe lives a good deal on the ground where it finds its chief food , which consists of beetles of various kinds , and their larvæ , cater- pillars , and ants . It is especially partial to dung - beetles , and may often be seen in ...
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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