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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... seen ; and the manner of their arrival is scarcely more remarkable than the regularity with which they annually make their appearance . That most of them reach this country after long and protracted flights , crossing the Medi ...
... seen ; and the manner of their arrival is scarcely more remarkable than the regularity with which they annually make their appearance . That most of them reach this country after long and protracted flights , crossing the Medi ...
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... seen and procured occasionally at a much earlier date , there is reason to believe that the spring migra- tion does not set in before this , and that the birds met with previously are such as have wintered in this country ; for it has ...
... seen and procured occasionally at a much earlier date , there is reason to believe that the spring migra- tion does not set in before this , and that the birds met with previously are such as have wintered in this country ; for it has ...
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... seen to land upon our shores in the daytime . In Ireland , according to Mr. Thompson , 1 1 " Nat . Hist . Ireland ; " Birds , i . pp . 176 , 177- the Wheatear arrives much later than in Eng- land , 2 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
... seen to land upon our shores in the daytime . In Ireland , according to Mr. Thompson , 1 1 " Nat . Hist . Ireland ; " Birds , i . pp . 176 , 177- the Wheatear arrives much later than in Eng- land , 2 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
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... seen in England , and only in winter , " is now found to be resident throughout the year , and nesting even in the proximity of London and other large cities . The Landrail , which he noted as " a bird so rare in this district that we ...
... seen in England , and only in winter , " is now found to be resident throughout the year , and nesting even in the proximity of London and other large cities . The Landrail , which he noted as " a bird so rare in this district that we ...
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... seen to flock , and it was a rare thing to see more than three or four at a time ; so that there must have been a perpetual flitting and constant progressive succession . The Wheatear is partial to commons and 1 As to other changes in ...
... seen to flock , and it was a rare thing to see more than three or four at a time ; so that there must have been a perpetual flitting and constant progressive succession . The Wheatear is partial to commons and 1 As to other changes in ...
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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