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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... 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 ascertained that the Wheatear , like the B Stonechat , occasionally remains with us ...
... 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 ascertained that the Wheatear , like the B Stonechat , occasionally remains with us ...
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... spring plumage of this bird . Many instances are on record of Wheatears having come on board vessels several miles from land at the period of migration , and from the observations of naturalists in various parts of the country it would ...
... spring plumage of this bird . Many instances are on record of Wheatears having come on board vessels several miles from land at the period of migration , and from the observations of naturalists in various parts of the country it would ...
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... 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 superciliary streak has almost dis- appeared ; the colour of the upper parts has become reddish brown ...
... 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 superciliary streak has almost dis- appeared ; the colour of the upper parts has become reddish brown ...
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... spring , and undergoing corresponding decrease in autumn . In the southern counties of England the Whinchat is sometimes very numerous , and may be found in every meadow perched upon the tall grass stems or dockweed . stems or dockweed ...
... spring , and undergoing corresponding decrease in autumn . In the southern counties of England the Whinchat is sometimes very numerous , and may be found in every meadow perched upon the tall grass stems or dockweed . stems or dockweed ...
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... spring , and immediately inform their friends that they have heard the Nightingale weeks before it has reached this country . Many poets have perpetuated the odd belief that the mournful notes of the Nightingale are caused by THE ...
... spring , and immediately inform their friends that they have heard the Nightingale weeks before it has reached this country . Many poets have perpetuated the odd belief that the mournful notes of the Nightingale are caused by THE ...
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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