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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... coast of Africa to Senegal , Gambia , and Fantee . The Whinchat differs a good deal in its habits from the Wheatear , and on this account . as well as on account of certain differences of structure , it has been placed with the Stone ...
... coast of Africa to Senegal , Gambia , and Fantee . The Whinchat differs a good deal in its habits from the Wheatear , and on this account . as well as on account of certain differences of structure , it has been placed with the Stone ...
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... coast of Dorsetshire , and thence apparently proceeding northwards , rather than dispersing towards the west ; so that they are only known as accidental stragglers a little beyond the third degree of western longitude . " They arrive ...
... coast of Dorsetshire , and thence apparently proceeding northwards , rather than dispersing towards the west ; so that they are only known as accidental stragglers a little beyond the third degree of western longitude . " They arrive ...
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... coast of Sussex about the middle of March , and on fine days may be seen approach- ing the shore , aided by a gentle breeze from the south , their well - known call - note being dis- tinctly audible from the sea long before the birds ...
... coast of Sussex about the middle of March , and on fine days may be seen approach- ing the shore , aided by a gentle breeze from the south , their well - known call - note being dis- tinctly audible from the sea long before the birds ...
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... coast , and the Wagtails now first become gregarious . At that time Mr. Knox has frequently observed them in the interior of the county , where they remain but a few days , making way for fresh detach- ments , which in their turn follow ...
... coast , and the Wagtails now first become gregarious . At that time Mr. Knox has frequently observed them in the interior of the county , where they remain but a few days , making way for fresh detach- ments , which in their turn follow ...
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... coast through- out the year , except on that portion which ex- tends from the Thames to the Humber , where it is only observed in spring and autumn during the period of migration . For although a resi- dent species , inasmuch as ...
... coast through- out the year , except on that portion which ex- tends from the Thames to the Humber , where it is only observed in spring and autumn during the period of migration . For although a resi- dent species , inasmuch as ...
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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