Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer in the British IslandsBickers and Son, 1875 - 336 páginas |
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... claw . In Richard's Pipit , it will be remem- bered , the hind claw is very long . Its real habitat may be said to be North Africa and Palestine . Canon Tristram calls it the common Pipit of the Sahara , and Mr. O. Salvin found it ...
... claw . In Richard's Pipit , it will be remem- bered , the hind claw is very long . Its real habitat may be said to be North Africa and Palestine . Canon Tristram calls it the common Pipit of the Sahara , and Mr. O. Salvin found it ...
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... claws cut , and , on being set at liberty , were caught the following year in the holes from which they had first been taken . Unlike most insectivorous birds , which bring but a single in- sect ( or at most two or three ) to the nest ...
... claws cut , and , on being set at liberty , were caught the following year in the holes from which they had first been taken . Unlike most insectivorous birds , which bring but a single in- sect ( or at most two or three ) to the nest ...
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... claws and mandibles , which are quite unequal to the task of holding and cutting up live and resisting feathered prey , and entirely also overlooking the fact that at the time the Nightjar is abroad , the young pheasants and partridges ...
... claws and mandibles , which are quite unequal to the task of holding and cutting up live and resisting feathered prey , and entirely also overlooking the fact that at the time the Nightjar is abroad , the young pheasants and partridges ...
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... claw . " Yarrell has figured the foot , in a vignette to his work on British Birds , in order to show this peculiarity of structure , the use of which has puzzled so many . The correctness of the view expressed by Gilbert White and ...
... claw . " Yarrell has figured the foot , in a vignette to his work on British Birds , in order to show this peculiarity of structure , the use of which has puzzled so many . The correctness of the view expressed by Gilbert White and ...
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... claw upon the middle toe , and yet do not take insects upon the wing , or even seize their prey with their feet . It has been ingeniously suggested that perhaps the serrated claw may be used for brushing away the broken wings and other ...
... claw upon the middle toe , and yet do not take insects upon the wing , or even seize their prey with their feet . It has been ingeniously suggested that perhaps the serrated claw may be used for brushing away the broken wings and other ...
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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 |
Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1889 |
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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 Sussex Swallow Swift tail throughout tion Tree Pipit trees Wheatear Whinchat Willow Warbler Willow Wren wind wing winter quarters Wood Warbler Yarrell Yellow Wagtail Zoologist