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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... tail at its ex- tremity are much browner . On raising the feathers of the back , it will be found that the base of each feather is grey ; and in spring this colour supersedes the brown of winter , which is worn off , and the upper parts ...
... tail at its ex- tremity are much browner . On raising the feathers of the back , it will be found that the base of each feather is grey ; and in spring this colour supersedes the brown of winter , which is worn off , and the upper parts ...
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... tail feathers on each side . Both species make a very similar 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 ...
... tail feathers on each side . Both species make a very similar 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 ...
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... tail . In the Willow Wren , under the same circumstances , less than half the tail is hidden . The Chiff- chaff's wing is shorter again . In my edition of White's " Selborne , " founded upon that of Ben- C 66 " " nett , 1875 , pp . 56 ...
... tail . In the Willow Wren , under the same circumstances , less than half the tail is hidden . The Chiff- chaff's wing is shorter again . In my edition of White's " Selborne , " founded upon that of Ben- C 66 " " nett , 1875 , pp . 56 ...
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... tail feathers margined with white instead of being uniformly grey . In habits and mode of life it assimilates , as might be expected , very much to the species with which we are so familiar . Those who have seen the nest , state that it ...
... tail feathers margined with white instead of being uniformly grey . In habits and mode of life it assimilates , as might be expected , very much to the species with which we are so familiar . Those who have seen the nest , state that it ...
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... tail coverts , and tail . From the bright colour of its tail , in fact , it has derived the name Redstart , which is simply the Anglo - Saxon equivalent for " Red- tail . " " Fire - tail , " " Brand - tail , " and " Quick- start , " are ...
... tail coverts , and tail . From the bright colour of its tail , in fact , it has derived the name Redstart , which is simply the Anglo - Saxon equivalent for " Red- tail . " " Fire - tail , " " Brand - tail , " and " Quick- start , " are ...
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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