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 with which the eggs of the Blackcap are often suffused is not found in those of its congener . Both sexes take their turn at incubation , relieving one another to feed ; but the male will often feed his partner on the nest , and ...
... colour with which the eggs of the Blackcap are often suffused is not found in those of its congener . Both sexes take their turn at incubation , relieving one another to feed ; but the male will often feed his partner on the nest , and ...
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... colour , the under parts white instead of grey , the legs brown instead of slate colour , and the outer tail feathers margined with white instead of being uniformly grey . In habits and mode of life it assimilates , as might be expected ...
... colour , the under parts white instead of grey , the legs brown instead of slate colour , and the outer tail feathers margined with white instead of being uniformly grey . In habits and mode of life it assimilates , as might be expected ...
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... colour without the chestnut crown , having the belly pure white instead of greyish white , and the legs lighter in colour . It appears much later than the Blackcap , seldom arriving before the end of April . Both sexes are alike in ...
... colour without the chestnut crown , having the belly pure white instead of greyish white , and the legs lighter in colour . It appears much later than the Blackcap , seldom arriving before the end of April . Both sexes are alike in ...
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... coloured instead of yel- lowish - brown . In haunts , habits , and mode of nesting the two species are very similar , and what has been said of one will apply almost equally well to the other . Both ... colour , 72 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
... coloured instead of yel- lowish - brown . In haunts , habits , and mode of nesting the two species are very similar , and what has been said of one will apply almost equally well to the other . Both ... colour , 72 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
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... colour , and are never so profusely freckled as those of its congener . On the contrary , the spots of ash - brown ... coloured than many of our THE LESSER WHITETHROAT . 73.
... colour , and are never so profusely freckled as those of its congener . On the contrary , the spots of ash - brown ... coloured than many of our THE LESSER WHITETHROAT . 73.
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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