Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer in the British IslandsBickers and Son, 1875 - 336 páginas |
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... - mer quarters ; that they make these long and yet journeys is well ascertained . On the 23rd of April a Willow Wren came on board a vessel eighty miles from Malta and fifty from Cape Passaro , THE WILLOW WARBLER . 25.
... - mer quarters ; that they make these long and yet journeys is well ascertained . On the 23rd of April a Willow Wren came on board a vessel eighty miles from Malta and fifty from Cape Passaro , THE WILLOW WARBLER . 25.
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... April , eighty miles from Zante and one hundred and thirty from Navarino , a Willow Wren and a Chiff - chaff were found dead on board , presumably from exhaustion , as they were apparently uninjured . Many other such instances are on ...
... April , eighty miles from Zante and one hundred and thirty from Navarino , a Willow Wren and a Chiff - chaff were found dead on board , presumably from exhaustion , as they were apparently uninjured . Many other such instances are on ...
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... April , and it is a well - ascertained fact that the males invariably precede the females by several days . In 1867 three London birdcatchers , between April 13 and May 2 , took 225 Night- ingales , and the whole of these , with five or ...
... April , and it is a well - ascertained fact that the males invariably precede the females by several days . In 1867 three London birdcatchers , between April 13 and May 2 , took 225 Night- ingales , and the whole of these , with five or ...
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... them at once as the prey of the profes- sional bird - catcher , and during the month of April immense numbers are taken daily . The Whitethroat and Lesser Whitethroat are also sought after as cage - birds , but not to. The Blackcap ...
... them at once as the prey of the profes- sional bird - catcher , and during the month of April immense numbers are taken daily . The Whitethroat and Lesser Whitethroat are also sought after as cage - birds , but not to. The Blackcap ...
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... April . Both sexes are alike in outward appearance ; but it has been ascertained , by careful observers who have dis- sected the birds , that the males invariably arrive in. ( Sylvia hortensis . ) AR from leading a retired life like the ...
... April . Both sexes are alike in outward appearance ; but it has been ascertained , by careful observers who have dis- sected the birds , that the males invariably arrive in. ( Sylvia hortensis . ) AR from leading a retired life like the ...
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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 |
Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1889 |
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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 Sussex Swallow Swift tail throughout tion Tree Pipit trees Wheatear Whinchat Willow Warbler Willow Wren wind wing winter quarters Wood Warbler Yarrell Yellow Wagtail Zoologist