Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer in the British IslandsSwan Sonnenschein and Company, 1889 - 336 páginas |
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... The Cuckoo The Wryneck The Hoopoe • · 2 The Golden Oriole The Red - backed Shrike The Turtle - dove The Landrail or Corncrake General Observations Conclusion Index FUE THE WHEATEAR . NE of the earliest of our X CONTENTS .
... The Cuckoo The Wryneck The Hoopoe • · 2 The Golden Oriole The Red - backed Shrike The Turtle - dove The Landrail or Corncrake General Observations Conclusion Index FUE THE WHEATEAR . NE of the earliest of our X CONTENTS .
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... HOOPOE . MONGST the large number of migratory birds which resort to the British Islands in spring for the purpose of nidification , are a few which come to us accidentally , as it were , or as stragglers from the main body of immi ...
... HOOPOE . MONGST the large number of migratory birds which resort to the British Islands in spring for the purpose of nidification , are a few which come to us accidentally , as it were , or as stragglers from the main body of immi ...
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... crouch forward and utter a hissing noise . Their crests are soon developed , but their bills do not acquire their full length until the following year . Lord Lilford states that although the Hoopoe as a rule THE HOOPOE . 255.
... crouch forward and utter a hissing noise . Their crests are soon developed , but their bills do not acquire their full length until the following year . Lord Lilford states that although the Hoopoe as a rule THE HOOPOE . 255.
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... Hoopoe as a rule prefers a hole in an old ash or willow tree for nesting in , he has seen a nest on the ground under a large stone , others in holes on the sunny side of mud or brick walls , one in a fissure of limestone rock , and ...
... Hoopoe as a rule prefers a hole in an old ash or willow tree for nesting in , he has seen a nest on the ground under a large stone , others in holes on the sunny side of mud or brick walls , one in a fissure of limestone rock , and ...
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... Hoopoe perched upon a hanging rope , and uttering its well - known cry without any tapping of the bill . 1 Cf. " Zoologist , " 1858 , and " Proc . Zool . Soc . , " 1863 , p . 264 . S I cannot help thinking that a bird observed in the ...
... Hoopoe perched upon a hanging rope , and uttering its well - known cry without any tapping of the bill . 1 Cf. " Zoologist , " 1858 , and " Proc . Zool . Soc . , " 1863 , p . 264 . S I cannot help thinking that a bird observed in the ...
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Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1875 |
Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1877 |
Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1875 |
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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 Swallow Swift tail throughout tion Tree Pipit trees Wheatear Whinchat Willow Warbler Willow Wren wind wing winter quarters Wood Warbler Yarrell Yellow Wagtail Zoologist