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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... dozen in one day in September , within a few miles of Selborne . The Common Bunting , which in 1768 was considered to be a " rare bird " in the district referred to , may now be heard there in full song - if song it THE WHEATEAR . 5.
... dozen in one day in September , within a few miles of Selborne . The Common Bunting , which in 1768 was considered to be a " rare bird " in the district referred to , may now be heard there in full song - if song it THE WHEATEAR . 5.
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... heard there in full song - if song it can be called throughout the month of May . Whilst walking from Liss to Selborne , I have on two occasions met with a bird which Gilbert White had not observed the Cirl Bunting ; and , to return to ...
... heard there in full song - if song it can be called throughout the month of May . Whilst walking from Liss to Selborne , I have on two occasions met with a bird which Gilbert White had not observed the Cirl Bunting ; and , to return to ...
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... heard of an instance in which any feathers were employed . The eggs , five or six in number , are white , closely freckled over with reddish brown . Mr. Blake - Knox , a well - known naturalist , resident in the county of Dublin , says ...
... heard of an instance in which any feathers were employed . The eggs , five or six in number , are white , closely freckled over with reddish brown . Mr. Blake - Knox , a well - known naturalist , resident in the county of Dublin , says ...
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... heard it . Should an Irish ornithologist see this , will he try for it , if he should live in a wooded district , such as the counties Wicklow and Wexford ? I am sure it is neglected for want of a certain dis- tinction . " Since this ...
... heard it . Should an Irish ornithologist see this , will he try for it , if he should live in a wooded district , such as the counties Wicklow and Wexford ? I am sure it is neglected for want of a certain dis- tinction . " Since this ...
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... heard , all doubts would at once be set at rest , for as a warbler it is far superior to any of the three species just mentioned . I have had many opportunities 1 See Professor Newton's edition of Yarrell's " History of British Birds ...
... heard , all doubts would at once be set at rest , for as a warbler it is far superior to any of the three species just mentioned . I have had many opportunities 1 See Professor Newton's edition of Yarrell's " History of British Birds ...
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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 |
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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