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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... Swift is the last of the Hirun- dines to arrive in this country , and the first to leave it . Its habits are very different from those of the Swallows . As a rule it makes no nest , but only lines a ... Swift which he THE COMMON SWIFT . 193.
... Swift is the last of the Hirun- dines to arrive in this country , and the first to leave it . Its habits are very different from those of the Swallows . As a rule it makes no nest , but only lines a ... Swift which he THE COMMON SWIFT . 193.
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... Swift which he found at Stoke Ferry , Norfolk , and which were composed of bits of straw and dry grass , " closely interwoven and held firmly to- gether by an adhesive substance very much re- sembling glue , and so disposed round the ...
... Swift which he found at Stoke Ferry , Norfolk , and which were composed of bits of straw and dry grass , " closely interwoven and held firmly to- gether by an adhesive substance very much re- sembling glue , and so disposed round the ...
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... Swift visits its young less frequently in the day , but brings a large store at each visit . The mouth is often so crammed with small black flies , that the bird presents the appearance of having a pouch under the chin , from which THE ...
... Swift visits its young less frequently in the day , but brings a large store at each visit . The mouth is often so crammed with small black flies , that the bird presents the appearance of having a pouch under the chin , from which THE ...
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... Swift is not observed in this country before the third week in May , and is seldom seen after the third week in August . It is found throughout the mainland of the British Islands , and breeds also in Mull and Iona , but not in Orkney ...
... Swift is not observed in this country before the third week in May , and is seldom seen after the third week in August . It is found throughout the mainland of the British Islands , and breeds also in Mull and Iona , but not in Orkney ...
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... Swift " is unfortunately a misnomer , since the bird is in no way confined to the immediate neighbourhood of the Alps . The name THE ALPINE SWIFT . 201.
... Swift " is unfortunately a misnomer , since the bird is in no way confined to the immediate neighbourhood of the Alps . The name THE ALPINE SWIFT . 201.
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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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