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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... CUCKOO . ROM numerous observations made by competent naturalists in different localities , it appears that the usual time of arrival of the Cuckoo in this country is between the 20th and 27th of April , and the average date of its ...
... CUCKOO . ROM numerous observations made by competent naturalists in different localities , it appears that the usual time of arrival of the Cuckoo in this country is between the 20th and 27th of April , and the average date of its ...
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... Cuckoo found in Java by Dr. Horsfield was not the Common Cuckoo of Europe , but an allied race ( C. canoroides , Müller , optatus , Gould ) , whose range extends eastward at least to China , and southward to Australia . If so ...
... Cuckoo found in Java by Dr. Horsfield was not the Common Cuckoo of Europe , but an allied race ( C. canoroides , Müller , optatus , Gould ) , whose range extends eastward at least to China , and southward to Australia . If so ...
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... Cuckoo deposits its eggs singly , and at intervals of a few days , in the nests of a variety of other birds , and leaves them to be hatched out , and the young reared , by the foster parents . The nests in which the Cuckoo's eggs are ...
... Cuckoo deposits its eggs singly , and at intervals of a few days , in the nests of a variety of other birds , and leaves them to be hatched out , and the young reared , by the foster parents . The nests in which the Cuckoo's eggs are ...
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... Cuckoo first lays her eggs and then deposits them with her bill in the nest . Considering the amount of attention which has been bestowed upon the Cuckoo by natural- ists in every age down to the present , one would suppose that every ...
... Cuckoo first lays her eggs and then deposits them with her bill in the nest . Considering the amount of attention which has been bestowed upon the Cuckoo by natural- ists in every age down to the present , one would suppose that every ...
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... Cuckoo , it does seem likely that the bird which once successfully deposited her eggs in a Reed Wren's or a Titlark's nest , should again seek for another Reed Wren's , or a Titlark's nest ( as the case may be ) when she had an egg to ...
... Cuckoo , it does seem likely that the bird which once successfully deposited her eggs in a Reed Wren's or a Titlark's nest , should again seek for another Reed Wren's , or a Titlark's nest ( as the case may be ) when she had an egg to ...
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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