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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... 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 the Wheatears , these birds , which were formerly so plentiful in ...
... 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 the Wheatears , these birds , which were formerly so plentiful in ...
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... months . On several 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 ...
... months . On several 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 ...
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... months in North Africa , Egypt , and Asia Minor . We cannot help thinking that the Nightingale and many other birds which visit us in summer and nest with us , must also nest in what we term their winter quarters ; other- wise it would ...
... months in North Africa , Egypt , and Asia Minor . We cannot help thinking that the Nightingale and many other birds which visit us in summer and nest with us , must also nest in what we term their winter quarters ; other- wise it would ...
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... months is noticed in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society ' for 1863 ( p . 288 ) , and that its ordinary repre- sentative in India and the countries eastward ( C. sinensis ) does the same I can vouch from personal observation ...
... months is noticed in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society ' for 1863 ( p . 288 ) , and that its ordinary repre- sentative in India and the countries eastward ( C. sinensis ) does the same I can vouch from personal observation ...
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... as the prey of the profes- sional bird - catcher , and during the month of April immense numbers are taken daily . The Whitethroat and Lesser Whitethroat are also sought after as cage - birds , but not to. The Blackcap CONTENTS.
... as the prey of the profes- sional bird - catcher , and during the month of April immense numbers are taken daily . The Whitethroat and Lesser Whitethroat are also sought after as cage - birds , but not to. The Blackcap CONTENTS.
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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