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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... branches of the common osier ( Salix viminalis ) abounding with aphides , being on such occasions . its chief favourite . " There is There is yet another sug- gestion - i.e . , that the name may have been bestowed from the circumstance ...
... branches of the common osier ( Salix viminalis ) abounding with aphides , being on such occasions . its chief favourite . " There is There is yet another sug- gestion - i.e . , that the name may have been bestowed from the circumstance ...
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... branch to branch , clinging to the twigs , and feeding on various insects , grubs , and caterpil- lars , and also on flower buds . It is sometimes seen alone , at other times two or three together . ' Undoubtedly it must needs feed also ...
... branch to branch , clinging to the twigs , and feeding on various insects , grubs , and caterpil- lars , and also on flower buds . It is sometimes seen alone , at other times two or three together . ' Undoubtedly it must needs feed also ...
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... branch it has just left , after the manner of a Tree Pipit , sometimes re - alighting elsewhere . The song , which is commenced on arrival , generally ceases early in the month of July . Its habits , and as Mr. Thompson says , the ...
... branch it has just left , after the manner of a Tree Pipit , sometimes re - alighting elsewhere . The song , which is commenced on arrival , generally ceases early in the month of July . Its habits , and as Mr. Thompson says , the ...
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... branch to branch . " Although generally distributed in England and Scotland , the Redstart is nowhere very common , being most plentiful , apparently , in the southern counties of England , and becoming rarer as we proceed northward ...
... branch to branch . " Although generally distributed in England and Scotland , the Redstart is nowhere very common , being most plentiful , apparently , in the southern counties of England , and becoming rarer as we proceed northward ...
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... branch , and dart forth into the air , like a Flycatcher , to secure a passing insect . Its song , though sprightly , is weak and seldom prolonged . It is generally poured forth from some bough or other " coign of vantage , " but is ...
... branch , and dart forth into the air , like a Flycatcher , to secure a passing insect . Its song , though sprightly , is weak and seldom prolonged . It is generally poured forth from some bough or other " coign of vantage , " but is ...
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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