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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... arriving on the coast of Dorsetshire , and thence apparently proceeding northwards , rather than dispersing towards the west ; so that they are only known as accidental stragglers a little beyond the third ... arrival of THE NIGHTINGALE . 35.
... arriving on the coast of Dorsetshire , and thence apparently proceeding northwards , rather than dispersing towards the west ; so that they are only known as accidental stragglers a little beyond the third ... arrival of THE NIGHTINGALE . 35.
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... arrival of the hen birds the cocks soon pair , and assist in building , during which time , and during the time the hens are sitting , they are in full song . When the young are hatched the males leave off singing , and busy themselves ...
... arrival of the hen birds the cocks soon pair , and assist in building , during which time , and during the time the hens are sitting , they are in full song . When the young are hatched the males leave off singing , and busy themselves ...
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... arrival , not only in England , but through- out central and southern Europe , to account for the apparently undiminished forces which reap- pear in the succeeding spring . The late Mr. Blyth , however , was of a dif- ferent opinion ...
... arrival , not only in England , but through- out central and southern Europe , to account for the apparently undiminished forces which reap- pear in the succeeding spring . The late Mr. Blyth , however , was of a dif- ferent opinion ...
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... haunts . 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 .
... haunts . 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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... arriving before the end of April . Both sexes are alike in outward appearance ; but it has been ascertained , by careful observers who have dis- sected the birds , that the males invariably arrive in. ( Sylvia hortensis . ) ( Sylvia ...
... arriving before the end of April . Both sexes are alike in outward appearance ; but it has been ascertained , by careful observers who have dis- sected the birds , that the males invariably arrive in. ( Sylvia hortensis . ) ( Sylvia ...
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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