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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... procured occasionally at a much earlier date , there is reason to believe that the spring migra- tion does not set in before this , and that the birds met with previously are such as have wintered in this country ; for it has been well ...
... procured occasionally at a much earlier date , there is reason to believe that the spring migra- tion does not set in before this , and that the birds met with previously are such as have wintered in this country ; for it has been well ...
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... procured specimens at the Cape . As is often the case with allied species , the remarks as to habits and food which have been applied to the Wood Warbler will apply almost equally well to the present species . The distinction between ...
... procured specimens at the Cape . As is often the case with allied species , the remarks as to habits and food which have been applied to the Wood Warbler will apply almost equally well to the present species . The distinction between ...
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... procured on the 22nd of October , had no trace whatever of a black head , and were considered by Colonel Tytler to be the young of the year ; but in my opinion the state of the plumage was not sufficiently juvenile ; and I think that ...
... procured on the 22nd of October , had no trace whatever of a black head , and were considered by Colonel Tytler to be the young of the year ; but in my opinion the state of the plumage was not sufficiently juvenile ; and I think that ...
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... procures its food chiefly by sallying after insects on the wing , or by alighting on the ground to pick up those which it has observed amongst the herbage , and on trees it flies from branch to branch . " Although generally distributed ...
... procures its food chiefly by sallying after insects on the wing , or by alighting on the ground to pick up those which it has observed amongst the herbage , and on trees it flies from branch to branch . " Although generally distributed ...
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... procured in Cambridgeshire , Norfolk , and Sussex . Of these , two specimens of S. palustris were killed at Whittlesford , Cam- 1 " The Birds of Middlesex , " p . 47 . 2 " Zoologist , " 1865 , p . 9729 . bridgeshire , many years ago ...
... procured in Cambridgeshire , Norfolk , and Sussex . Of these , two specimens of S. palustris were killed at Whittlesford , Cam- 1 " The Birds of Middlesex , " p . 47 . 2 " Zoologist , " 1865 , p . 9729 . bridgeshire , many years ago ...
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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