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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... otherwise desirable to furnish . These may be found , moreover , in other works devoted to British Ornithology . July , 1875 . JAMES EDMUND HARTING . HE Wheatear THE The Whinchat The Stonechat . The Wood PREFACE . vii.
... otherwise desirable to furnish . These may be found , moreover , in other works devoted to British Ornithology . July , 1875 . JAMES EDMUND HARTING . HE Wheatear THE The Whinchat The Stonechat . The Wood PREFACE . vii.
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... Wheatear THE The Whinchat The Stonechat . The Wood Warbler The Willow Warbler The Chiff - chaff The Nightingale The Blackcap CONTENTS . Page I 9 The Orphean Warbler The Garden Warbler The Common Whitethroat 13 16 24 28 32 44 51 59 67 71 ...
... Wheatear THE The Whinchat The Stonechat . The Wood Warbler The Willow Warbler The Chiff - chaff The Nightingale The Blackcap CONTENTS . Page I 9 The Orphean Warbler The Garden Warbler The Common Whitethroat 13 16 24 28 32 44 51 59 67 71 ...
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... 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 .
... 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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... WHEATEAR . NE of the earliest of our feathered visitors ONI to arrive is the Wheatear , which comes to us as a rule in the second week of March ; and , although individuals have been seen and procured occasionally at a much earlier date ...
... WHEATEAR . NE of the earliest of our feathered visitors ONI to arrive is the Wheatear , which comes to us as a rule in the second week of March ; and , although individuals have been seen and procured occasionally at a much earlier date ...
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... Wheatear may have been derived either from the season of its arrival , or from its being taken in great numbers for the table at wheat harvest . Or , again , it may be a corrup- tion of whitear , from the white ear which is very ...
... Wheatear may have been derived either from the season of its arrival , or from its being taken in great numbers for the table at wheat harvest . Or , again , it may be a corrup- tion of whitear , from the white ear which is very ...
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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 |
Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1889 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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