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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... earliest arrival of the migratory species , the haunts which they select , and the wonderful diversity which they exhibit in their actions , nidification , and song . There is something almost mysterious in the way in which numbers of ...
... earliest arrival of the migratory species , the haunts which they select , and the wonderful diversity which they exhibit in their actions , nidification , and song . There is something almost mysterious in the way in which numbers of ...
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... Swift The Nightjar The Cuckoo The Wryneck The Hoopoe • · 2 The Golden Oriole The Red - backed Shrike The Turtle - dove The Landrail or Corncrake General Observations Conclusion Index FUE THE WHEATEAR . NE of the earliest of our X CONTENTS .
... Swift The Nightjar The Cuckoo The Wryneck The Hoopoe • · 2 The Golden Oriole The Red - backed Shrike The Turtle - dove The Landrail or Corncrake General Observations Conclusion Index FUE THE WHEATEAR . NE of the earliest of our X CONTENTS .
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... earliest of our feathered visitors ONE to arrive is the Wheatear , which comes to us as a rule in the second week of March ; and , although individuals have been seen and procured occasionally at a much earlier date , there is reason to ...
... earliest of our feathered visitors ONE to arrive is the Wheatear , which comes to us as a rule in the second week of March ; and , although individuals have been seen and procured occasionally at a much earlier date , there is reason to ...
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... early dawn . I do not remember any recorded instance in which they have been seen to land upon our shores in the daytime . In Ireland , according to Mr. Thompson , ' 1 " Nat . Hist . Ireland ; " Birds , i . pp . 176 , 177 . the Wheatear ...
... early dawn . I do not remember any recorded instance in which they have been seen to land upon our shores in the daytime . In Ireland , according to Mr. Thompson , ' 1 " Nat . Hist . Ireland ; " Birds , i . pp . 176 , 177 . the Wheatear ...
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... Willow Wren arrives in this country about the end of the first week in April - that is to say , before the Wood Warbler , but not so early as the Chiff - chaff ,. ( Phylloscopus trochilus . ) HE Willow Warbler is much THE CHIFF - CHAFF .
... Willow Wren arrives in this country about the end of the first week in April - that is to say , before the Wood Warbler , but not so early as the Chiff - chaff ,. ( Phylloscopus trochilus . ) HE Willow Warbler is much THE CHIFF - CHAFF .
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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