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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... nest of the Wheatear is generally well concealed in the crevice of a cliff or sandbank , or in an old rabbit burrow . Where these con- veniences are not accessible , the nest may be found at the foot of a bush , screened from view by ...
... nest of the Wheatear is generally well concealed in the crevice of a cliff or sandbank , or in an old rabbit burrow . Where these con- veniences are not accessible , the nest may be found at the foot of a bush , screened from view by ...
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... nest , which is placed on the ground and well concealed , and lay very similar eggs , of a bright blue faintly speckled at the large end with rust colour . As Α THE STONECHAT . S has been already stated I 2 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
... nest , which is placed on the ground and well concealed , and lay very similar eggs , of a bright blue faintly speckled at the large end with rust colour . As Α THE STONECHAT . S has been already stated I 2 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
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... nests , they differr emarkably from other members of the Sylviide in building domed nests on or near the ground , instead of cup - shaped nests at a distance from it . The Yellow - billed Chiff - chaff — or Icterine Warbler , as it ...
... nests , they differr emarkably from other members of the Sylviide in building domed nests on or near the ground , instead of cup - shaped nests at a distance from it . The Yellow - billed Chiff - chaff — or Icterine Warbler , as it ...
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... nest which contained the eggs was lined with feathers . Now , the Willow Wren invariably makes use of feathers for this purpose , but the Wood Warbler does not . The nest of the latter is composed entirely of dry grass and leaves ...
... nest which contained the eggs was lined with feathers . Now , the Willow Wren invariably makes use of feathers for this purpose , but the Wood Warbler does not . The nest of the latter is composed entirely of dry grass and leaves ...
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... congeners , and have referred to its nest and eggs , it will suffice to state that , like the Willow Wren , it is a regular summer visitant to England , Scotland , and Ireland ; that. THE CHIFF - CHAFF . ( Philomela luscinia . )
... congeners , and have referred to its nest and eggs , it will suffice to state that , like the Willow Wren , it is a regular summer visitant to England , Scotland , and Ireland ; that. THE CHIFF - CHAFF . ( Philomela luscinia . )
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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