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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... 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 conspicuous in the spring plumage of this bird . Many ...
... 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 conspicuous in the spring plumage of this bird . Many ...
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... seasons on the Hampshire downs was noticed by Gilbert White in a letter to the Hon . Daines Barrington in Dec. 1773 ... season , and those only in autumn , " is now so plentiful in the same neighbourhood that I have shot as many as half ...
... seasons on the Hampshire downs was noticed by Gilbert White in a letter to the Hon . Daines Barrington in Dec. 1773 ... season , and those only in autumn , " is now so plentiful in the same neighbourhood that I have shot as many as half ...
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... season , and the practice of snaring them has perceptibly de- clined.1 It was remarkable that , although in the height of the season - i . e . , at wheat harvest -so many hundreds of dozens were taken , yet they were never seen to flock ...
... season , and the practice of snaring them has perceptibly de- clined.1 It was remarkable that , although in the height of the season - i . e . , at wheat harvest -so many hundreds of dozens were taken , yet they were never seen to flock ...
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... season . In some years I have noticed extraordinary numbers of this little bird , and in others have scarcely been able to count two or three pairs in a parish . I have generally found that a cold or wet spring has so affected their ...
... season . In some years I have noticed extraordinary numbers of this little bird , and in others have scarcely been able to count two or three pairs in a parish . I have generally found that a cold or wet spring has so affected their ...
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... season is not uncommon in Egypt , Nubia , and Abyssinia , travelling also through Asia Minor , Arabia and Persia , as far eastward as the north- west provinces of India . In a south - westerly direction this species , passing through ...
... season is not uncommon in Egypt , Nubia , and Abyssinia , travelling also through Asia Minor , Arabia and Persia , as far eastward as the north- west provinces of India . In a south - westerly direction this species , passing through ...
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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