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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... one 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 6 dunghill , on which beech leaves had been thrown THE LANDRAIL OR CORNCRAKE . 291.
... one 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 6 dunghill , on which beech leaves had been thrown THE LANDRAIL OR CORNCRAKE . 291.
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... Landrail , and yet it is frequently found by sportsmen upon Snipe - ground at the height of the cold season . Its good condition too at this time testifies to there being a sufficient supply of food , which should be equally obtainable ...
... Landrail , and yet it is frequently found by sportsmen upon Snipe - ground at the height of the cold season . Its good condition too at this time testifies to there being a sufficient supply of food , which should be equally obtainable ...
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... several occasions has been met with on the eastern coast of the United States , whither it must have travelled , doubtless , via Greenland . A single instance is on record of its having been THE LANDRAIL OR CORNCRAKE . 295.
... several occasions has been met with on the eastern coast of the United States , whither it must have travelled , doubtless , via Greenland . A single instance is on record of its having been THE LANDRAIL OR CORNCRAKE . 295.
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... Landrail 24 Swift 30 Nightingale 23 Willow Wren . . · 29 Martin . 23 Sandmartin · 27 Tree Pipit 21 Whitethroat 26 Sedge Warbler • 17 Blackcap . 25 Yellow Wagtail . 16 • • Wryneck 16 Wood Wren 9 Nightjar 16 Pied Flycatcher GENERAL ...
... Landrail 24 Swift 30 Nightingale 23 Willow Wren . . · 29 Martin . 23 Sandmartin · 27 Tree Pipit 21 Whitethroat 26 Sedge Warbler • 17 Blackcap . 25 Yellow Wagtail . 16 • • Wryneck 16 Wood Wren 9 Nightjar 16 Pied Flycatcher GENERAL ...
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... Landrail , or Corncrake , as it is indif- ferently called , ' arrived pretty generally during the last week of April , and was noticed by a great many observers on the 25th , 26th , 27th , and 28th of that month . On the last ...
... Landrail , or Corncrake , as it is indif- ferently called , ' arrived pretty generally during the last week of April , and was noticed by a great many observers on the 25th , 26th , 27th , and 28th of that month . On the last ...
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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