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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... India . In a south - westerly direction this species , passing through Spain and Portugal , proceeds down the west coast of Africa to Senegal , Gambia , and Fantee . In The Whinchat differs a good deal in its habits from the Wheatear ...
... India . In a south - westerly direction this species , passing through Spain and Portugal , proceeds down the west coast of Africa to Senegal , Gambia , and Fantee . In The Whinchat differs a good deal in its habits from the Wheatear ...
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... India and Japan . In Europe , however , its distribution is somewhat remark- able , inasmuch as it is confined chiefly to the central and southern portions of the continent , and in Norway and Sweden is unknown . The Whinchat , on the ...
... India and Japan . In Europe , however , its distribution is somewhat remark- able , inasmuch as it is confined chiefly to the central and southern portions of the continent , and in Norway and Sweden is unknown . The Whinchat , on the ...
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... " The only birds known to me that breed in their winter quarters are two species of Sand- martin ( Cotyle riparia and C. sinensis ) . In India I have been familiar enough with birds in their winter THE NIGHTINGALE . 41.
... " The only birds known to me that breed in their winter quarters are two species of Sand- martin ( Cotyle riparia and C. sinensis ) . In India I have been familiar enough with birds in their winter THE NIGHTINGALE . 41.
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... India and the countries eastward ( C. sinensis ) does the same I can vouch from personal observation , having myself taken both eggs and young about the turn of the year from their burrows in the banks of the Hugli ; while Mr. Swinhoe ...
... India and the countries eastward ( C. sinensis ) does the same I can vouch from personal observation , having myself taken both eggs and young about the turn of the year from their burrows in the banks of the Hugli ; while Mr. Swinhoe ...
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... - wards and northwards from the east and south- east , and vice versa . In North - west India , par- ticularly in the neighbourhood of Umballah , it is tolerably common . The Rev. Canon Tristram found it THE ORPHEAN WARBLER . 53 '
... - wards and northwards from the east and south- east , and vice versa . In North - west India , par- ticularly in the neighbourhood of Umballah , it is tolerably common . The Rev. Canon Tristram found it THE ORPHEAN WARBLER . 53 '
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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