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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... occasions correspondents have forwarded to me in winter a bird which they believed to be the Whinchat , but which invariably proved to be a female , or male in winter plumage ,. ELDOM appearing before the end of the ( Saxicola rubicola . )
... occasions correspondents have forwarded to me in winter a bird which they believed to be the Whinchat , but which invariably proved to be a female , or male in winter plumage ,. ELDOM appearing before the end of the ( Saxicola rubicola . )
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... male in winter plumage , of the - Stonechat a species which is known to reside with us throughout the year , yet receiving a large accession to its numbers in spring , and undergoing corresponding decrease in autumn . tall In the ...
... male in winter plumage , of the - Stonechat a species which is known to reside with us throughout the year , yet receiving a large accession to its numbers in spring , and undergoing corresponding decrease in autumn . tall In the ...
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... such ground is enlivened by the sprightly actions and sharp " chook - chook " of this little bird . The male in his wedding dress , with jet black. ( Saxicola rubicola . ) ( Phylloscopus trochilus . ) HE Willow Warbler is much.
... such ground is enlivened by the sprightly actions and sharp " chook - chook " of this little bird . The male in his wedding dress , with jet black. ( Saxicola rubicola . ) ( Phylloscopus trochilus . ) HE Willow Warbler is much.
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... male in his wedding dress , with jet black head , white collar , and ferruginous breast , is extremely handsome ; and the artist who is fond of depicting bird - life would scarcely find a prettier subject than a male Stonechat in this ...
... male in his wedding dress , with jet black head , white collar , and ferruginous breast , is extremely handsome ; and the artist who is fond of depicting bird - life would scarcely find a prettier subject than a male Stonechat in this ...
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... male Stonechat loses the black head , and the colours in both sexes are much less vivid than in summer . Here again , as with the Wheatear , the change of plumage seems to be effected by a change of colour in the same feathers , and not ...
... male Stonechat loses the black head , and the colours in both sexes are much less vivid than in summer . Here again , as with the Wheatear , the change of plumage seems to be effected by a change of colour in the same feathers , and not ...
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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