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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... land . But how few of those who notice them in this country know where they come from , why they come , what they find here to live upon , how , when , and where they go for the winter ! In the following chapters an attempt has been ...
... land . But how few of those who notice them in this country know where they come from , why they come , what they find here to live upon , how , when , and where they go for the winter ! In the following chapters an attempt has been ...
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... land at the period of migration , and from the observations of naturalists in various parts of the country it would ... land upon our shores in the daytime . In Ireland , according to Mr. Thompson , ' 1 " Nat . Hist . Ireland ; " Birds ...
... land at the period of migration , and from the observations of naturalists in various parts of the country it would ... land upon our shores in the daytime . In Ireland , according to Mr. Thompson , ' 1 " Nat . Hist . Ireland ; " Birds ...
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... land , and does not stay the winter . With regard to Scotland , Macgillivray states ' that it is nowhere more plentiful than in the outer Hebrides , and in the Orkney and Shetland Islands ; and from the fact of his having ob- served the ...
... land , and does not stay the winter . With regard to Scotland , Macgillivray states ' that it is nowhere more plentiful than in the outer Hebrides , and in the Orkney and Shetland Islands ; and from the fact of his having ob- served the ...
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... day in the district of which he wrote , the reader may be referred to the Preface to my edition of the " Natural History of Selborne " recently pub- lished . waste lands , old quarries , sand hills , and 6 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
... day in the district of which he wrote , the reader may be referred to the Preface to my edition of the " Natural History of Selborne " recently pub- lished . waste lands , old quarries , sand hills , and 6 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
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... lands , old quarries , sand hills , and downs by the sea , and it is in these situations that we may now look for him without much fear of disappointment . Like all the chats , the Wheat- ear is very terrestrial in its habits , seldom ...
... lands , old quarries , sand hills , and downs by the sea , and it is in these situations that we may now look for him without much fear of disappointment . Like all the chats , the Wheat- ear is very terrestrial in its habits , seldom ...
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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