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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... head , white collar , and ferruginous breast , is extremely handsome ; and the artist who is fond of depicting bird - life would scarcely find a prettier subject than a male Stonechat in this plumage upon a spray of furze in full bloom ...
... head , white collar , and ferruginous breast , is extremely handsome ; and the artist who is fond of depicting bird - life would scarcely find a prettier subject than a male Stonechat in this plumage upon a spray of furze in full bloom ...
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... head , and the colours in both sexes are much less vivid than in summer . Here again , as with the Wheatear , the change of plumage seems to be effected by a change of colour in the same feathers , and not by a moult . Apropos of this ...
... head , and the colours in both sexes are much less vivid than in summer . Here again , as with the Wheatear , the change of plumage seems to be effected by a change of colour in the same feathers , and not by a moult . Apropos of this ...
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... a curious variety of the Blackcap which is found in these islands , " having the black marking on the head extending to the shoulders and round under the throat , " and he was informed that individuals were THE BLACKCAP . 47.
... a curious variety of the Blackcap which is found in these islands , " having the black marking on the head extending to the shoulders and round under the throat , " and he was informed that individuals were THE BLACKCAP . 47.
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... head , and were considered by Colonel Tytler to be the young of the year ; but in my opinion the state of the plumage was not sufficiently juvenile ; and I think that the old birds adopt a different colouring according to the time of ...
... head , and were considered by Colonel Tytler to be the young of the year ; but in my opinion the state of the plumage was not sufficiently juvenile ; and I think that the old birds adopt a different colouring according to the time of ...
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... head of Blackcap , I have referred to the nest of the Garden Warbler for the purpose of com- parison , and need only add here that it is gene- rally well concealed , and that , unless the owner is seen near the nest , it is oftentimes ...
... head of Blackcap , I have referred to the nest of the Garden Warbler for the purpose of com- parison , and need only add here that it is gene- rally well concealed , and that , unless the owner is seen near the nest , it is oftentimes ...
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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