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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... plumage of this bird . Many instances are on record of Wheatears having come on board vessels several miles from land at the period of migration , and from the observations of naturalists in various parts of the country it would appear ...
... plumage of this bird . Many instances are on record of Wheatears having come on board vessels several miles from land at the period of migration , and from the observations of naturalists in various parts of the country it would appear ...
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... plumage of this bird is very remarkable . If an old bird be examined in September , it will be found that the white superciliary streak has almost dis- appeared ; the colour of the upper parts has become reddish brown ; the throat and ...
... plumage of this bird is very remarkable . If an old bird be examined in September , it will be found that the white superciliary streak has almost dis- appeared ; the colour of the upper parts has become reddish brown ; the throat and ...
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... plumage is effected by a change of colour in the same feather , and not by a moult . The nest of the Wheatear is generally well concealed in the crevice of a cliff or sandbank , or in an old rabbit burrow . Where these con- veniences ...
... plumage is effected by a change of colour in the same feather , and not by a moult . The nest of the Wheatear is generally well concealed in the crevice of a cliff or sandbank , or in an old rabbit burrow . Where these con- veniences ...
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... have forwarded to me in winter a bird which they believed to be the Whinchat , but which invariably proved to be a female , or male in winter plumage ,. ELDOM appearing before the end of the ( Saxicola rubicola . ) The Whinchat.
... have forwarded to me in winter a bird which they believed to be the Whinchat , but which invariably proved to be a female , or male in winter plumage ,. ELDOM appearing before the end of the ( Saxicola rubicola . ) The Whinchat.
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... plumage , of the Stonechat — a species which is known to reside with us throughout the year , yet receiving a large accession to its numbers in spring , and undergoing corresponding decrease in autumn . In the southern counties of ...
... plumage , of the Stonechat — a species which is known to reside with us throughout the year , yet receiving a large accession to its numbers in spring , and undergoing corresponding decrease in autumn . In the southern counties of ...
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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