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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... one day in September , within a few miles of Selborne . The Common Bunting , which in 1768 was considered to be a " rare bird " in the district referred to , may now be heard there in full song- -if song it can THE WHEATEAR . 5.
... one day in September , within a few miles of Selborne . The Common Bunting , which in 1768 was considered to be a " rare bird " in the district referred to , may now be heard there in full song- -if song it can THE WHEATEAR . 5.
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... considered to be a resident species , and this is attributed by Mr. Thompson to the mild winters of that island . In Scotland , on the contrary , Sir Wm . Jardine has observed that the Stonechat is not nearly so abundant as either the ...
... considered to be a resident species , and this is attributed by Mr. Thompson to the mild winters of that island . In Scotland , on the contrary , Sir Wm . Jardine has observed that the Stonechat is not nearly so abundant as either the ...
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... considered commoner from the difference in the haunts of the two species - the Wood Warbler , as already remarked , keeping further away from habitations . As a rule , the Willow Wren arrives in this country about the end of the first ...
... considered commoner from the difference in the haunts of the two species - the Wood Warbler , as already remarked , keeping further away from habitations . As a rule , the Willow Wren arrives in this country about the end of the first ...
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... considered as obsolete . Whilst on the subject of Willow Warblers , we may refer to the fact that a single example of another species , P. hypolais ( vel icterina , the oldest name for it ) , which is common enough on the other side of ...
... considered as obsolete . Whilst on the subject of Willow Warblers , we may refer to the fact that a single example of another species , P. hypolais ( vel icterina , the oldest name for it ) , which is common enough on the other side of ...
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... considered a regular summer visitant . Mr. Blyth has expressed the opinion ' that the Nightingale migrates almost due north and south , deviating but a very little indeed either to the right or left . " There are none in Brittany , " he ...
... considered a regular summer visitant . Mr. Blyth has expressed the opinion ' that the Nightingale migrates almost due north and south , deviating but a very little indeed either to the right or left . " There are none in Brittany , " he ...
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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