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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... song . There is something almost mysterious in the way in which numbers of these small and deli- cately formed birds are found scattered in one day over a parish where on the previous day not one was to be seen ; and the manner of their ...
... song . There is something almost mysterious in the way in which numbers of these small and deli- cately formed birds are found scattered in one day over a parish where on the previous day not one was to be seen ; and the manner of their ...
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... in September , within a few miles of Selborne . The Common Bunting , which in 1768 was considered to be a " rare bird " in the district referred to , may now be heard there in full song- -if song it can THE WHEATEAR . 5.
... in September , within a few miles of Selborne . The Common Bunting , which in 1768 was considered to be a " rare bird " in the district referred to , may now be heard there in full song- -if song it can THE WHEATEAR . 5.
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... song - if song it can be called throughout the month of May . Whilst walking from Liss to Selborne , I have on two occasions met with a bird which Gilbert White had not observed the Cirl Bunting ; and , to return to the Wheatears ...
... song - if song it can be called throughout the month of May . Whilst walking from Liss to Selborne , I have on two occasions met with a bird which Gilbert White had not observed the Cirl Bunting ; and , to return to the Wheatears ...
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... song is rather sprightly , and is occasionally uttered on the wing . The contrast between the spring and autumn plumage of this bird is very remarkable . If an old bird be examined in September , it will be found that the white ...
... song is rather sprightly , and is occasionally uttered on the wing . The contrast between the spring and autumn plumage of this bird is very remarkable . If an old bird be examined in September , it will be found that the white ...
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... From its larger size , brighter colour , and finer song , the Wood Warbler deserves to be first 1 Yarrell , " Hist . Brit . Birds , " 4th ed . vol . i . pp . 427 , 442 .. noticed ; and the first step should be to dis-. The Wood Warbler.
... From its larger size , brighter colour , and finer song , the Wood Warbler deserves to be first 1 Yarrell , " Hist . Brit . Birds , " 4th ed . vol . i . pp . 427 , 442 .. noticed ; and the first step should be to dis-. The Wood Warbler.
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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