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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... the neighbour- hood of London ; but if one dealer only is instrumental in capturing between 200 and 300 in the season , it is easy to account for the 1 scarcity of the species . On the arrival of THE NIGHTINGALE . 35.
... the neighbour- hood of London ; but if one dealer only is instrumental in capturing between 200 and 300 in the season , it is easy to account for the 1 scarcity of the species . On the arrival of THE NIGHTINGALE . 35.
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... Nightingale sing on through- out June , but accounted for this by supposing that the nest had been robbed , and that the cock was singing while the hen hatched a second brood . Naturalists who live in London need not travel more than ...
... Nightingale sing on through- out June , but accounted for this by supposing that the nest had been robbed , and that the cock was singing while the hen hatched a second brood . Naturalists who live in London need not travel more than ...
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... Nightingale warbles only at eve . The reason , no doubt , is that amidst the general chorus by day its song is less noticed . or attended to . But that it sings constantly by day is a fact ... Nightingale are caused by THE NIGHTINGALE . 37.
... Nightingale warbles only at eve . The reason , no doubt , is that amidst the general chorus by day its song is less noticed . or attended to . But that it sings constantly by day is a fact ... Nightingale are caused by THE NIGHTINGALE . 37.
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... Nightingale are caused by the bird's leaning against a thorn to sing ! Shakespeare , for example , in his " Pas- sionate Pilgrim , " says : " Everything did banish moan , Save the nightingale alone . She , poor bird , as all forlorn ...
... Nightingale are caused by the bird's leaning against a thorn to sing ! Shakespeare , for example , in his " Pas- sionate Pilgrim , " says : " Everything did banish moan , Save the nightingale alone . She , poor bird , as all forlorn ...
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... Nightingale frequents thorny copses , and builds her nest amongst brambles on the ground . He inquires " whether it ... Nightingale's nest . It 1 Sir Thos . Browne's Works , Wilkin's ed . vol . ii . p . 537 . cannot be doubted , however ...
... Nightingale frequents thorny copses , and builds her nest amongst brambles on the ground . He inquires " whether it ... Nightingale's nest . It 1 Sir Thos . Browne's Works , Wilkin's ed . vol . ii . p . 537 . cannot be doubted , however ...
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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