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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... Warbler is almost unknown in Ireland , and its nest has only once been met with in Scotland.1 As a rule , it is seldom , if ever , to be seen further north than Yorkshire and Lancashire , and does not breed either in ... SEDGE WARBLER . 83.
... Warbler is almost unknown in Ireland , and its nest has only once been met with in Scotland.1 As a rule , it is seldom , if ever , to be seen further north than Yorkshire and Lancashire , and does not breed either in ... SEDGE WARBLER . 83.
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... Sedge Warbler has a variegated back , with a conspicuous light streak over the eye ; the Reed Warbler has a uniform pale- brown back , and the superciliary streak very faint . The actions of the two birds are not unlike , but their ...
... Sedge Warbler has a variegated back , with a conspicuous light streak over the eye ; the Reed Warbler has a uniform pale- brown back , and the superciliary streak very faint . The actions of the two birds are not unlike , but their ...
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... Warbler in a yew tree , built so as to include three or four twigs as if they were reeds , and placed at a height of at least twelve or fourteen feet from the ground . He ... WARBLER .. HE third species of this genus THE SEDGE WARBLER . 85.
... Warbler in a yew tree , built so as to include three or four twigs as if they were reeds , and placed at a height of at least twelve or fourteen feet from the ground . He ... WARBLER .. HE third species of this genus THE SEDGE WARBLER . 85.
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... WARBLER .. HE third species of this genus which is THE a regular summer migrant to this country is the Grasshopper Warbler , so called from its peculiar sibilant note . In its general appearance it is most like the Sedge Warbler , but ...
... WARBLER .. HE third species of this genus which is THE a regular summer migrant to this country is the Grasshopper Warbler , so called from its peculiar sibilant note . In its general appearance it is most like the Sedge Warbler , but ...
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... Sedge Warbler , is placed upon the ground , and carefully con- cealed . The eggs , five or six in number , are amongst the most beautiful of small birds ' eggs . When blown they are white , minutely freckled over with brownish - red ...
... Sedge Warbler , is placed upon the ground , and carefully con- cealed . The eggs , five or six in number , are amongst the most beautiful of small birds ' eggs . When blown they are white , minutely freckled over with brownish - red ...
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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