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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... 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 small and deli- cately formed ...
... 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 small and deli- cately formed ...
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... species , which it might be otherwise desirable to furnish . These may be found , moreover , in other works devoted to British Ornithology . July , 1875 . JAMES EDMUND HARTING . CONTENTS . Page I HE Wheatear THE The Whinchat The PREFACE ...
... species , which it might be otherwise desirable to furnish . These may be found , moreover , in other works devoted to British Ornithology . July , 1875 . JAMES EDMUND HARTING . CONTENTS . Page I HE Wheatear THE The Whinchat The PREFACE ...
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... is grey ; and in spring this colour supersedes the brown of winter , which is worn off , and the upper parts assume a beautiful bluish grey , while the under parts become pure white . In this species , therefore , it is THE WHEATEAR . ་ 7.
... is grey ; and in spring this colour supersedes the brown of winter , which is worn off , and the upper parts assume a beautiful bluish grey , while the under parts become pure white . In this species , therefore , it is THE WHEATEAR . ་ 7.
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... species , therefore , it is evident that the seasonal change of 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 ...
... species , therefore , it is evident that the seasonal change of 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 ...
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... 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 England the Whinchat is sometimes ...
... 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 England the Whinchat is sometimes ...
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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