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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... arrival of the migratory species , the haunts which they select , and the wonderful diversity which they exhibit in their actions , nidification , and song . There is something almost mysterious in the way in which numbers of these ...
... arrival of the migratory species , the haunts which they select , and the wonderful diversity which they exhibit in their actions , nidification , and song . There is something almost mysterious in the way in which numbers of these ...
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... arrive upon our shores , and have been observed at sea during their passage , often at a considerable distance from land . But how few of those who notice them in this country know where they come from , why they come , what they find ...
... arrive upon our shores , and have been observed at sea during their passage , often at a considerable distance from land . But how few of those who notice them in this country know where they come from , why they come , what they find ...
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... arrive is the Wheatear , which comes to us as a rule in the second week of March ; and , although individuals have been seen and procured occasionally at a much earlier date , there is reason to believe that the spring migra- tion does ...
... arrive is the Wheatear , which comes to us as a rule in the second week of March ; and , although individuals have been seen and procured occasionally at a much earlier date , there is reason to believe that the spring migra- tion does ...
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... 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 instances are ...
... 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 instances are ...
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... arrival in England . It extends to Sutherland , Caithness , and the outer Hebrides ( cf. More , " Ibis , " 1865 , p . 22 ) , and has occasionally been met with in Orkney , but not in Shetland . In winter it migrates to the south - east ...
... arrival in England . It extends to Sutherland , Caithness , and the outer Hebrides ( cf. More , " Ibis , " 1865 , p . 22 ) , and has occasionally been met with in Orkney , but not in Shetland . In winter it migrates to the south - east ...
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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