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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... colour of the upper parts has become reddish brown ; the throat and breast pale ferruginous , lighter on the flanks and belly ; while the primaries and tail at its ex- tremity are much browner . On raising the feathers of the back , it ...
... colour of the upper parts has become reddish brown ; the throat and breast pale ferruginous , lighter on the flanks and belly ; while the primaries and tail at its ex- tremity are much browner . On raising the feathers of the back , it ...
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... colour in the same feather , and not by a moult . The nest of the Wheatear is generally well concealed in the crevice of a cliff or sandbank , or in an old rabbit burrow . Where these con- veniences are not accessible , the nest may be ...
... colour in the same feather , and not by a moult . The nest of the Wheatear is generally well concealed in the crevice of a cliff or sandbank , or in an old rabbit burrow . Where these con- veniences are not accessible , the nest may be ...
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... coloured throat and vent , and by the white bases of the three outer tail feathers on each side . Both species make a very similar nest , which is placed ... colour . As Α THE STONECHAT . S has been already stated I 2 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
... coloured throat and vent , and by the white bases of the three outer tail feathers on each side . Both species make a very similar nest , which is placed ... colour . As Α THE STONECHAT . S has been already stated I 2 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
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... colours in both sexes are much less vivid than in summer . Here again , as with the Wheatear , the change of plumage seems to be effected by a change ... colour in birds . A THE WOOD WARBLER . ( Phylloscopus sibilatrix . ) THE STONECHAT . 15.
... colours in both sexes are much less vivid than in summer . Here again , as with the Wheatear , the change of plumage seems to be effected by a change ... colour in birds . A THE WOOD WARBLER . ( Phylloscopus sibilatrix . ) THE STONECHAT . 15.
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... its larger size , brighter colour , and finer song , the Wood Warbler deserves to be first 1 Yarrell , " Hist . Brit . Birds , " 4th ed . vol . i . pp . 427 , 442 .. noticed ; and the first step should be to dis-. The Wood Warbler.
... its larger size , brighter colour , and finer song , the Wood Warbler deserves to be first 1 Yarrell , " Hist . Brit . Birds , " 4th ed . vol . i . pp . 427 , 442 .. noticed ; and the first step should be to dis-. The Wood Warbler.
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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