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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... taken in great numbers for the table at wheat harvest . Or , again , it may be a corrup- tion of whitear , from the white ear which is very conspicuous in the spring plumage of this bird . Many instances are on record of Wheatears ...
... taken in great numbers for the table at wheat harvest . Or , again , it may be a corrup- tion of whitear , from the white ear which is very conspicuous in the spring plumage of this bird . Many instances are on record of Wheatears ...
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... taken years ago upon the South Downs in autumn was a matter of notoriety . ( 6 Hereabouts , " says an old chronicle of East- bourne , " is the chief place for catching the delicious birds called Wheatears , which much resemble the ...
... taken years ago upon the South Downs in autumn was a matter of notoriety . ( 6 Hereabouts , " says an old chronicle of East- bourne , " is the chief place for catching the delicious birds called Wheatears , which much resemble the ...
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... taken , yet they were never seen to flock , and it was a rare thing to see more than three or four at a time ; so that there must have been a perpetual flitting and constant progressive succession . The Wheatear is partial to commons ...
... taken , yet they were never seen to flock , and it was a rare thing to see more than three or four at a time ; so that there must have been a perpetual flitting and constant progressive succession . The Wheatear is partial to commons ...
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... taken to comprehend every species of warbler , Professor Newton has recently shown ' that the genus Sylvia of Latham should be restricted to the group of fruit - eating warblers next to be described , and that the generic term which has ...
... taken to comprehend every species of warbler , Professor Newton has recently shown ' that the genus Sylvia of Latham should be restricted to the group of fruit - eating warblers next to be described , and that the generic term which has ...
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... taken in connection with other details , it will often assist the determination of a species . examining a large series of these birds , I have come to the conclusion that , as regards the wings , the following formulæ may be relied on ...
... taken in connection with other details , it will often assist the determination of a species . examining a large series of these birds , I have come to the conclusion that , as regards the wings , the following formulæ may be relied on ...
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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