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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... September , when it migrates to the south - east to spend the winter in a warmer climate . It appears to be common at that season in Italy , Sicily , the Maltese Islands , and Asia Minor ; and Mr. Blyth has found it as far to the ...
... September , when it migrates to the south - east to spend the winter in a warmer climate . It appears to be common at that season in Italy , Sicily , the Maltese Islands , and Asia Minor ; and Mr. Blyth has found it as far to the ...
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... . The males invariably arrive some days before the females ; but both sexes seem to leave the country much about the same time - that is , early in September . The nests of all the species in the genus Sylvia 48 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
... . The males invariably arrive some days before the females ; but both sexes seem to leave the country much about the same time - that is , early in September . The nests of all the species in the genus Sylvia 48 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
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... September . By exercising great caution he has sometimes approached within a few feet of the bird , and watched it picking the green aphides from the sycamore leaves . It does not appear to have been observed in Orkney . Its range north ...
... September . By exercising great caution he has sometimes approached within a few feet of the bird , and watched it picking the green aphides from the sycamore leaves . It does not appear to have been observed in Orkney . Its range north ...
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... September and October . In winter it is not uncommon in Asia Minor and North - east Africa . Amongst the birds col- lected at Aboo , North - west India , by Dr. King , in September , 1868 , Mr. Hume found one which both he and M. Jules ...
... September and October . In winter it is not uncommon in Asia Minor and North - east Africa . Amongst the birds col- lected at Aboo , North - west India , by Dr. King , in September , 1868 , Mr. Hume found one which both he and M. Jules ...
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... September , 1874 . The bird first attracted my attention by the very rufous colour of the dorsal plumage , and as I succeeded in obtaining a near view of it , I feel confident that I was not mistaken in the species . The nest and eggs ...
... September , 1874 . The bird first attracted my attention by the very rufous colour of the dorsal plumage , and as I succeeded in obtaining a near view of it , I feel confident that I was not mistaken in the species . The nest and eggs ...
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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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