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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... seems to be effected by a change of colour in the same feathers , and not by a moult . Apropos of this subject , the reader may be referred to an article contributed by me to the Natural History columns of " The Field , " 16th September ...
... seems to be effected by a change of colour in the same feathers , and not by a moult . Apropos of this subject , the reader may be referred to an article contributed by me to the Natural History columns of " The Field , " 16th September ...
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... seems to be well known as a periodical migrant . The winter quarters of the Willow Wren are to a certain extent those of its congeners , that is to say , Northern Africa and Palestine , where it is very numerous in the cold season , but ...
... seems to be well known as a periodical migrant . The winter quarters of the Willow Wren are to a certain extent those of its congeners , that is to say , Northern Africa and Palestine , where it is very numerous in the cold season , but ...
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... seems to have some special at- traction for them . Far from shunning “ the busy haunts of men , " they appear to be nowhere more at home than in our gardens and orchards . The reason is obvious as soon as we become acquainted with their ...
... seems to have some special at- traction for them . Far from shunning “ the busy haunts of men , " they appear to be nowhere more at home than in our gardens and orchards . The reason is obvious as soon as we become acquainted with their ...
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... seems to be hardier also than any of his congeners . Many instances are on record of Blackcaps having remained in ... seem to have taken place in the local distribution of many 46 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
... seems to be hardier also than any of his congeners . Many instances are on record of Blackcaps having remained in ... seem to have taken place in the local distribution of many 46 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
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... haunts . The males invariably arrive some days before the females ; but both sexes seem to leave the country much about the same time - that is , early in September . The nests of all the species in the genus Sylvia 48 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
... haunts . The males invariably arrive some days before the females ; but both sexes seem to leave the country much about the same time - that is , early in September . The nests of all the species in the genus Sylvia 48 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
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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