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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... claws , and large hind toe with strong curved claw . They differ , too , from other warblers in their habit of singing at night . There are eight species which have all more or less a claim to be included in the British list , although ...
... claws , and large hind toe with strong curved claw . They differ , too , from other warblers in their habit of singing at night . There are eight species which have all more or less a claim to be included in the British list , although ...
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... claw . The numerous intermediate forms , however , which the researches of modern na- turalists have brought to light from various parts of the Old World , have rendered this sub- division less necessary or desirable than it may ...
... claw . The numerous intermediate forms , however , which the researches of modern na- turalists have brought to light from various parts of the Old World , have rendered this sub- division less necessary or desirable than it may ...
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... claw of the latter . Like these birds , they live almost entirely on the ground , where they seek their food , build their nests , and rear their young . Low - lying meadows and marshy places , the margin of tidal harbours , and the sea ...
... claw of the latter . Like these birds , they live almost entirely on the ground , where they seek their food , build their nests , and rear their young . Low - lying meadows and marshy places , the margin of tidal harbours , and the sea ...
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... claw , at once serve to distinguish it from the commoner species . As compared with the Rock Pipit , the largest of those with which we are most familiar , its dimensions are as follows. ( Anthus Richardi . ) HE family of Flycatchers is ...
... claw , at once serve to distinguish it from the commoner species . As compared with the Rock Pipit , the largest of those with which we are most familiar , its dimensions are as follows. ( Anthus Richardi . ) HE family of Flycatchers is ...
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... claw . Inches . Inches . Inches . Inches . A. obscurus . * 5 • • 32 . • $ 9 .8 . • • A. Richardi 6 . • • 3.6 I'2 1 2 · · • Its occurrence in England has been noted , as might be expected , chiefly on the east and south coasts , in every ...
... claw . Inches . Inches . Inches . Inches . A. obscurus . * 5 • • 32 . • $ 9 .8 . • • A. Richardi 6 . • • 3.6 I'2 1 2 · · • Its occurrence in England has been noted , as might be expected , chiefly on the east and south coasts , in every ...
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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