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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... quarters . It is a little remarkable that in Ireland the Whinchat is far less common than the Stone- chat , the reverse being the case in England . Mr. Thompson says , in the work already quoted ( ΙΟ OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
... quarters . It is a little remarkable that in Ireland the Whinchat is far less common than the Stone- chat , the reverse being the case in England . Mr. Thompson says , in the work already quoted ( ΙΟ OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
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... to their sum- mer quarters ; that they make these long journeys is well ascertained . On the 23rd of and yet April a Willow Wren came on board a vessel eighty miles from Malta and fifty from Cape Passaro , THE WILLOW WARBLER . 25.
... to their sum- mer quarters ; that they make these long journeys is well ascertained . On the 23rd of and yet April a Willow Wren came on board a vessel eighty miles from Malta and fifty from Cape Passaro , THE WILLOW WARBLER . 25.
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... periodical migrant . The winter quarters of the Willow Wren are to a certain extent those of its congeners , that is to say , Northern Africa and Palestine , where it is very numerous in the cold season , but 26 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
... periodical migrant . The winter quarters of the Willow Wren are to a certain extent those of its congeners , that is to say , Northern Africa and Palestine , where it is very numerous in the cold season , but 26 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
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... quarters ; other- wise it would be impossible , considering the immense numbers which are captured on their first arrival , not only in England , but through- out central and southern Europe , to account for the apparently undiminished ...
... quarters ; other- wise it would be impossible , considering the immense numbers which are captured on their first arrival , not only in England , but through- out central and southern Europe , to account for the apparently undiminished ...
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... quarters , and have no hesitation . in asserting that migratory species ( with the re- markable exceptions named ) do not even pair until they have returned to their summer haunts . Were they to do so , I could not but have repeatedly ...
... quarters , and have no hesitation . in asserting that migratory species ( with the re- markable exceptions named ) do not even pair until they have returned to their summer haunts . Were they to do so , I could not but have repeatedly ...
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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