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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... usual habit of the Willow Warblers . These notes being intended rather as sugges- tions for those who desire to know a little about our summer birds , than as a condensed history of the species , I may observe , in concluding this ...
... usual habit of the Willow Warblers . These notes being intended rather as sugges- tions for those who desire to know a little about our summer birds , than as a condensed history of the species , I may observe , in concluding this ...
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... usual , I watched it attentively for some time . It then struck me as having a smaller head and closer plumage than the spotted one , and occasionally I thought I observed some white marks on the wings ; but , the evening light just ...
... usual , I watched it attentively for some time . It then struck me as having a smaller head and closer plumage than the spotted one , and occasionally I thought I observed some white marks on the wings ; but , the evening light just ...
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... usual perch was the upper bough of a bush , whence they would dart off after passing flies . " To this I may add that the note frequently repeated is not unlike that of the Redstart , although softer and 166 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
... usual perch was the upper bough of a bush , whence they would dart off after passing flies . " To this I may add that the note frequently repeated is not unlike that of the Redstart , although softer and 166 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
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... usual , that he at length destroyed the Swifts in order to free his bees from their attacks . With reference to the food of the House Martin , I may mention that some years since , as I was watching some of these birds skimming over a ...
... usual , that he at length destroyed the Swifts in order to free his bees from their attacks . With reference to the food of the House Martin , I may mention that some years since , as I was watching some of these birds skimming over a ...
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... in autumn of the later fledged birds , which are not sufficiently strong on the wing to join the main body of emigrants at the usual time of their departure . THE SAND MARTIN . ( Cotyle riparia . ) THIS 186 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
... in autumn of the later fledged birds , which are not sufficiently strong on the wing to join the main body of emigrants at the usual time of their departure . THE SAND MARTIN . ( Cotyle riparia . ) THIS 186 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
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Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1877 |
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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