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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... Cuckoo The Wryneck The Hoopoe . . 135 138 142 146 149 152 155 160 170 184 · 187 191 199 204 · 219 242 249 The Golden Oriole 262 The Red - backed Shrike 276 The Turtle - dove 282 The Landrail or Corncrake 288 General Observations 299 ...
... Cuckoo The Wryneck The Hoopoe . . 135 138 142 146 149 152 155 160 170 184 · 187 191 199 204 · 219 242 249 The Golden Oriole 262 The Red - backed Shrike 276 The Turtle - dove 282 The Landrail or Corncrake 288 General Observations 299 ...
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... Cuckoo is fre- quently to be heard at midnight , and the Land- rail constantly . It would appear that of the large number of persons who profess a love for song birds very few , comparatively , have the ear to distinguish a song unless ...
... Cuckoo is fre- quently to be heard at midnight , and the Land- rail constantly . It would appear that of the large number of persons who profess a love for song birds very few , comparatively , have the ear to distinguish a song unless ...
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... Cuckoo likewise does ) when in their winter quarters ; whereas the Sand - martins ( Cotyle ) , as I am all but sure from recollection , resemble the great majority of our summer migrants in moulting before they take their departure ...
... Cuckoo likewise does ) when in their winter quarters ; whereas the Sand - martins ( Cotyle ) , as I am all but sure from recollection , resemble the great majority of our summer migrants in moulting before they take their departure ...
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... Cuckoo . " He adds , " as no fragments of the hard parts of these insects ever occur in the intestine , it fol- lows that the refuse is ejected by the mouth . " From its habit of capturing dor - beetles , the bird in some parts of the ...
... Cuckoo . " He adds , " as no fragments of the hard parts of these insects ever occur in the intestine , it fol- lows that the refuse is ejected by the mouth . " From its habit of capturing dor - beetles , the bird in some parts of the ...
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... Cuckoo , would form the best and safest means of conveyance . In the young Nightjar at first the peculiarity in question is not observable , and Macgillivray remarked that in a fully - fledged young bird shot early in September , the ...
... Cuckoo , would form the best and safest means of conveyance . In the young Nightjar at first the peculiarity in question is not observable , and Macgillivray remarked that in a fully - fledged young bird shot early in September , the ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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