Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer in the British IslandsBickers, 1877 - 336 páginas |
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... habits of birds , there is not a more entertaining occupation than that of noting the earliest arrival of the migratory species , the haunts which they select , and the wonderful diversity which they exhibit in their actions ...
... habits of birds , there is not a more entertaining occupation than that of noting the earliest arrival of the migratory species , the haunts which they select , and the wonderful diversity which they exhibit in their actions ...
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... habits , and will suffer a much nearer approach . The name Wheatear may have been derived either from the 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 ...
... habits , and will suffer a much nearer approach . The name Wheatear may have been derived either from the 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 ...
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... habits of birds have been remarked . For example , the Haw- finch , which he referred to as " rarely seen in England , and only in winter , " is now found to be resident throughout the year , and nesting even in the proximity of London ...
... habits of birds have been remarked . For example , the Haw- finch , which he referred to as " rarely seen in England , and only in winter , " is now found to be resident throughout the year , and nesting even in the proximity of London ...
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... habits , seldom perch- ing on trees , although often to be seen on gate- posts and rails , where a broader footing is afforded it . Its song is rather sprightly , and is occasionally uttered on the wing . The contrast between the spring ...
... habits , seldom perch- ing on trees , although often to be seen on gate- posts and rails , where a broader footing is afforded it . Its song is rather sprightly , and is occasionally uttered on the wing . The contrast between the spring ...
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... a good deal in its habits from the Wheatear , and on this account , as well as on account of certain differences of structure , it has been placed with the Stone- chat and other allied species in a separate genus ( THE WHINCHAT . II.
... a good deal in its habits from the Wheatear , and on this account , as well as on account of certain differences of structure , it has been placed with the Stone- chat and other allied species in a separate genus ( THE WHINCHAT . II.
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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 - 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 Corncrake Cuckoo edition eggs Egypt England Europe feathers frequently Garden Warbler Gibraltar Grasshopper Warbler habits hatched haunts Hist hole Hoopoe Howard Saunders hybernation Ibis India insects instance Ireland June Landrail Lapland Lesser Whitethroat Lord Lilford male Malta Meadow Pipit Mediterranean migration month naturalists neighbourhood Nightingale Nightjar Norfolk North Africa noticed observed occasionally occurrence Orioles Ornithology Palestine plumage procured Professor Newton rare Red-backed Shrike Redstart Reed Warbler Reed Wren's remarked Rock Pipit Salvin Sand Martin says Scotland season Sedge Warbler seen September Shetland shot song southward species specimens Spotted Flycatcher spring and autumn summer migrants Sussex Swallow Swift tail throughout tion Titlark's nest Tree Pipit Wagtail Wheatear Whinchat Whitethroat Willow Wren wind wing Wood Wryneck Yarrell Yellow Wagtail young Cuckoo Zoologist
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