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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... eggs when fresh are the most lovely imaginable , being of a bright pink with dark purple spots , scattered chiefly at the larger end . The nest , as I have already hinted , is cup - shaped , and placed at a little height from the ground ...
... eggs when fresh are the most lovely imaginable , being of a bright pink with dark purple spots , scattered chiefly at the larger end . The nest , as I have already hinted , is cup - shaped , and placed at a little height from the ground ...
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... Eggs of British Birds , " has adduced two similar instances in the case of the Hedge Sparrow . The nest of the Nightingale is a very loosely- made structure , composed for the greater part of dead leaves , and placed upon a hedge bank ...
... Eggs of British Birds , " has adduced two similar instances in the case of the Hedge Sparrow . The nest of the Nightingale is a very loosely- made structure , composed for the greater part of dead leaves , and placed upon a hedge bank ...
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... eggs and young about the turn of the year from their burrows in the banks of the Hugli ; while Mr. Swinhoe noticed their breeding when in their winter haunts , in the ' Ibis ' for 1863 , p . 257 , and 1866 , p . 134. ' " " THE BLACKCA P ...
... eggs and young about the turn of the year from their burrows in the banks of the Hugli ; while Mr. Swinhoe noticed their breeding when in their winter haunts , in the ' Ibis ' for 1863 , p . 257 , and 1866 , p . 134. ' " " THE BLACKCA P ...
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... eggs , usually five in number , are white clouded with pale brown , and sparsely spotted with black towards the larger end . They closely resemble the eggs of the Garden Warbler , but differ in being smaller , and as a rule of a warmer ...
... eggs , usually five in number , are white clouded with pale brown , and sparsely spotted with black towards the larger end . They closely resemble the eggs of the Garden Warbler , but differ in being smaller , and as a rule of a warmer ...
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... eggs which were taken in Notton Wood , near Wake- field , in June , 1864 , which certainly appertained to none of our common warblers , and the eggs could not be distinguished from well - authen- ticated eggs of Sylvia orphea.1 Mr ...
... eggs which were taken in Notton Wood , near Wake- field , in June , 1864 , which certainly appertained to none of our common warblers , and the eggs could not be distinguished from well - authen- ticated eggs of Sylvia orphea.1 Mr ...
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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