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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... Landrail now and then turns up during the winter months , its appear- ance at such times is exceptional , the great majority of these birds having left our shores before the first day of pheasant shooting has come round . We can only ...
... Landrail now and then turns up during the winter months , its appear- ance at such times is exceptional , the great majority of these birds having left our shores before the first day of pheasant shooting has come round . We can only ...
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... of these birds ; I caught it at last one night in the hole or nest I might say , for it was thickly bedded with leaves from a neighbouring ' dunghill , on which beech leaves had been thrown ; THE LANDRAIL OR CORNCRAKE . 291.
... of these birds ; I caught it at last one night in the hole or nest I might say , for it was thickly bedded with leaves from a neighbouring ' dunghill , on which beech leaves had been thrown ; THE LANDRAIL OR CORNCRAKE . 291.
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... in its favour would be desirable - the discovery , for instance , of a Landrail in a torpid state from which it might be observed to recover . At present I do not remember to have heard of such an in- 292 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
... in its favour would be desirable - the discovery , for instance , of a Landrail in a torpid state from which it might be observed to recover . At present I do not remember to have heard of such an in- 292 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
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... Land- rail must traverse daily an immense tract of ground , for which , however , its strong muscular legs and large ... Landrail caught on Canvey Island , at the mouth of the Thames , lived in confinement on corn and water for a week ...
... Land- rail must traverse daily an immense tract of ground , for which , however , its strong muscular legs and large ... Landrail caught on Canvey Island , at the mouth of the Thames , lived in confinement on corn and water for a week ...
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... Landrail displays its cunning . If surprised suddenly and caught , it will often feign death , and remain perfectly stiff and motionless for several minutes , to all appearance dead , but in reality only waiting for an opportunity to ...
... Landrail displays its cunning . If surprised suddenly and caught , it will often feign death , and remain perfectly stiff and motionless for several minutes , to all appearance dead , but in reality only waiting for an opportunity to ...
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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