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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... remarkable than the regularity with which they annually make their appearance . That most of them reach this country after long and protracted flights , crossing the Medi- terranean , the Bay of Biscay , and the English.
... remarkable than the regularity with which they annually make their appearance . That most of them reach this country after long and protracted flights , crossing the Medi- terranean , the Bay of Biscay , and the English.
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... appearance before the end of April , that is , more than a fortnight after its arrival in England . It extends to Sutherland , Caithness , and the outer Hebrides ( cf. More , Ibis , " 1865 , p . 22 ) , and has occasionally been met with ...
... appearance before the end of April , that is , more than a fortnight after its arrival in England . It extends to Sutherland , Caithness , and the outer Hebrides ( cf. More , Ibis , " 1865 , p . 22 ) , and has occasionally been met with ...
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... appearance at a season when caterpillars and destructive larvæ begin to be troublesome , the good they do in ridding the young leaves and buds of these pests is incalculable . I have watched a Willow Wren picking the green aphis off a ...
... appearance at a season when caterpillars and destructive larvæ begin to be troublesome , the good they do in ridding the young leaves and buds of these pests is incalculable . I have watched a Willow Wren picking the green aphis off a ...
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... . p . 349 , 3rd edit . ) , “ I am not aware of any record of its appearance in Scotland . " This statement , however , has been rectified in the fourth edition of this standard work by Pro- fessor Newton 22 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
... . p . 349 , 3rd edit . ) , “ I am not aware of any record of its appearance in Scotland . " This statement , however , has been rectified in the fourth edition of this standard work by Pro- fessor Newton 22 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
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... appearance just as the willow is budding . It is marvellous how these tiny creatures can sustain the protracted flights which are necessary to transport them from their winter to their sum- mer quarters ; and yet that they make these ...
... appearance just as the willow is budding . It is marvellous how these tiny creatures can sustain the protracted flights which are necessary to transport them from their winter to their sum- mer quarters ; and yet that they make these ...
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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