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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... winter ! In the following chapters an attempt has been made to answer these questions , and to give such information generally about our summer migratory birds as will prove acceptable to many who may be glad to possess it without ...
... winter ! In the following chapters an attempt has been made to answer these questions , and to give such information generally about our summer migratory birds as will prove acceptable to many who may be glad to possess it without ...
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... winter are far less shy in their habits , and will suffer a much nearer approach . The name Wheatear may have been derived either from the season of its arrival , or from its being taken in great numbers for the table at wheat harvest ...
... winter are far less shy in their habits , and will suffer a much nearer approach . The name Wheatear may have been derived either from the season of its arrival , or from its being taken in great numbers for the table at wheat harvest ...
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... winter . With regard to Scotland , Macgillivray states ' that it is nowhere more plentiful than in the outer Hebrides , and in the Orkney and Shetland Islands ; and from the fact of his having ob- served the species near Edinburgh on ...
... winter . With regard to Scotland , Macgillivray states ' that it is nowhere more plentiful than in the outer Hebrides , and in the Orkney and Shetland Islands ; and from the fact of his having ob- served the species near Edinburgh on ...
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... winter , " is now found to De resident throughout the year , and nesting even in the proximity of London and other large cities . The Landrail , which he noted as " a bird so rare in this district that we seldom see more than one or two ...
... winter , " is now found to De resident throughout the year , and nesting even in the proximity of London and other large cities . The Landrail , which he noted as " a bird so rare in this district that we seldom see more than one or two ...
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... ; and in spring this colour supersedes the brown of winter , which is worn off , and the upper parts assume a beautiful bluish grey , while the under parts become pure white . In this species , therefore , it is THE WHEATEAR . 7.
... ; and in spring this colour supersedes the brown of winter , which is worn off , and the upper parts assume a beautiful bluish grey , while the under parts become pure white . In this species , therefore , it is THE WHEATEAR . 7.
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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