Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer in the British IslandsBickers, 1877 - 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 . 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 . 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 - 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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Página 235 - ... the Pipit from its back on to the edge. It then stood quite upright on its legs, which were straddled wide apart, with the claws firmly fixed half-way down the inside of the nest among the interlacing fibres of which the nest was woven; and, stretching its wings apart and backwards, it elbowed the pipit fairly over the margin so far that its struggles took it down the bank instead of back into the nest.
Página 229 - ... its load with a jerk, and quite disengaged it from the nest. It remained in this situation a short time, feeling about with the extremities of its wings, as if to be convinced whether the business was properly executed, and then dropped into the nest again.
Página 229 - ... of the nest till it reached the top, where, resting for a moment, it threw off its load with a jerk, and quite disengaged it from the nest.
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Página 236 - Pipits had welldeveloped quills on the wings and back, and had bright eyes, partially open ; yet they seemed quite helpless under the manipulations of the Cuckoo, which looked a much less developed creature. The Cuckoo's legs, however, seemed very muscular ; and it appeared to feel about with its wings, which were absolutely featherless, as with hands, the ' spurious wing' (unusually large in proportion), looking like a spread-out thumb.
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Página 237 - ... spurious wing' (unusually large in proportion) looking like a spread-out thumb. The most singular thing of all was the direct purpose with which the blind little monster made for the open side of the nest, the only part where it could throw its burthen down the bank. I think all the spectators felt the sort of horror and awe at the apparent inadequacy of the creature's intelligence to its acts that one might have felt at seeing a toothless hag raise a ghost by an incantation. It was horribly...