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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... amongst the birds of Ireland ; for although the description given to him of certain birds and eggs seemed to apply to this species , it was stated that the nest which contained the eggs was lined with feathers . Now , the Willow Wren ...
... amongst the birds of Ireland ; for although the description given to him of certain birds and eggs seemed to apply to this species , it was stated that the nest which contained the eggs was lined with feathers . Now , the Willow Wren ...
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... amongst naturalists . The most remarkable fact in connection with its annual sojourn in England is its very partial distribution . When we find this bird in summer as far to the westward as Spain and Portugal , and as far to the ...
... amongst naturalists . The most remarkable fact in connection with its annual sojourn in England is its very partial distribution . When we find this bird in summer as far to the westward as Spain and Portugal , and as far to the ...
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... amongst brambles on the ground . He inquires " whether it be any more than that she placeth some prickles on the outside of her nest , or roosteth in thorny , prickly places , where serpents may least approach her ? " In an article upon ...
... amongst brambles on the ground . He inquires " whether it be any more than that she placeth some prickles on the outside of her nest , or roosteth in thorny , prickly places , where serpents may least approach her ? " In an article upon ...
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... amongst every other of our summer migrants . There is something very peculiar , too , about the half - hopping , half - creeping motions of all the Fruit - eating Warblers , which distinguishes them at once from other small birds ...
... amongst every other of our summer migrants . There is something very peculiar , too , about the half - hopping , half - creeping motions of all the Fruit - eating Warblers , which distinguishes them at once from other small birds ...
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... amongst our British warblers rests on very slender grounds . So long ago as July , 1848 , a pair of this species were observed in a small plantation near We- therby , and the hen bird was shot and for- warded to Sir William Milner , who ...
... amongst our British warblers rests on very slender grounds . So long ago as July , 1848 , a pair of this species were observed in a small plantation near We- therby , and the hen bird was shot and for- warded to Sir William Milner , who ...
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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