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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... leaves and buds of these pests is incalculable . I have watched a Willow Wren picking the green aphis off a standard rose - tree , and have been as much astonished at the quan- tity which it consumed as at the rapidity of the ...
... leaves and buds of these pests is incalculable . I have watched a Willow Wren picking the green aphis off a standard rose - tree , and have been as much astonished at the quan- tity which it consumed as at the rapidity of the ...
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... leaves , occasionally mixed with a little moss ; and although I have sometimes found horsehair inside , I do not remember to have seen or heard of an instance in which any feathers were employed . The eggs , five or six in number , are ...
... leaves , occasionally mixed with a little moss ; and although I have sometimes found horsehair inside , I do not remember to have seen or heard of an instance in which any feathers were employed . The eggs , five or six in number , are ...
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... and southward to Algeria , Egypt and Abyssinia . It arrives in this country generally about the middle of April , and leaves again in September . 145 THE WILLOW WARBLER . THE more generally distributed than THE WOOD WARBLER . 23.
... and southward to Algeria , Egypt and Abyssinia . It arrives in this country generally about the middle of April , and leaves again in September . 145 THE WILLOW WARBLER . THE more generally distributed than THE WOOD WARBLER . 23.
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... leaves have given signs of approaching summer . As I have already pointed out the means of distinguishing this little bird from its congeners , and have referred to its nest and eggs , it will suffice to state that , like the Willow ...
... leaves have given signs of approaching summer . As I have already pointed out the means of distinguishing this little bird from its congeners , and have referred to its nest and eggs , it will suffice to state that , like the Willow ...
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... leaves , and placed upon a hedge bank , generally at the root of some stout shrub or thorn . The eggs , usually five in number , are , like the bird itself , of a plain olive - brown colour . The young Nightingales are spotted like ...
... leaves , and placed upon a hedge bank , generally at the root of some stout shrub or thorn . The eggs , usually five in number , are , like the bird itself , of a plain olive - brown colour . The young Nightingales are spotted like ...
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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