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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... Chiff - chaff ,. ( Phylloscopus trochilus . ) HE Willow Warbler is much THE CHIFF - CHAFF .
... Chiff - chaff ,. ( Phylloscopus trochilus . ) HE Willow Warbler is much THE CHIFF - CHAFF .
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... Chiff - chaff , which is the first of the genus to appear . 66 Yarrell speaks of these birds as having acquired with us the general name of Willow Warblers , or Willow Wrens , from their pre- vailing green colour ; " but Thompson , in ...
... Chiff - chaff , which is the first of the genus to appear . 66 Yarrell speaks of these birds as having acquired with us the general name of Willow Warblers , or Willow Wrens , from their pre- vailing green colour ; " but Thompson , in ...
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... Chiff - chaff were found dead on board , presumably from exhaustion , as they were apparently uninjured . Many other such instances are on record . Al- The present species may be regarded as the commonest of the three which visit us ...
... Chiff - chaff were found dead on board , presumably from exhaustion , as they were apparently uninjured . Many other such instances are on record . Al- The present species may be regarded as the commonest of the three which visit us ...
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... Chiff - chaff are both lined with feathers , the eggs of the former being white spotted with red ; while those of the latter are white spotted with purple , chiefly at the larger end . Varieties in this group of birds are rarely met ...
... Chiff - chaff are both lined with feathers , the eggs of the former being white spotted with red ; while those of the latter are white spotted with purple , chiefly at the larger end . Varieties in this group of birds are rarely met ...
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... Chiff - chaff is apparently the hardiest of them all , for it often braves the winds of March , and makes its appearance in England long before the leaves have given signs of approaching summer . As I have already pointed out the means ...
... Chiff - chaff is apparently the hardiest of them all , for it often braves the winds of March , and makes its appearance in England long before the leaves have given signs of approaching summer . As I have already pointed out the means ...
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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