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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... fact was com- municated by Dr. Plomley to Mr. Yarrell , who published it in his " History of British Birds . ' A second British example of this species was shot at Dunsinea , county Dublin , in June , 1856 , and is now in the Royal ...
... fact was com- municated by Dr. Plomley to Mr. Yarrell , who published it in his " History of British Birds . ' A second British example of this species was shot at Dunsinea , county Dublin , in June , 1856 , and is now in the Royal ...
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... fact in connection with its annual sojourn in England is its very partial distribution . When we find this bird in summer as far to the westward as Spain and Portugal , and as far to the northward as Sweden , we may well be surprised at ...
... fact in connection with its annual sojourn in England is its very partial distribution . When we find this bird in summer as far to the westward as Spain and Portugal , and as far to the northward as Sweden , we may well be surprised at ...
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... fact that the boundary line , over which it seldom if ever flies , excludes it from Cornwall , West Devon ; part of Somerset , Gloucester , and Hereford ; the whole of Wales ( à fortiori from Ireland ) , part of Shropshire , the whole ...
... fact that the boundary line , over which it seldom if ever flies , excludes it from Cornwall , West Devon ; part of Somerset , Gloucester , and Hereford ; the whole of Wales ( à fortiori from Ireland ) , part of Shropshire , the whole ...
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... fact that the males invariably precede the females by several days . In 1867 three London birdcatchers , between April 13 and May 2 , took 225 Night- ingales , and the whole of these , with five or six exceptions only , were cock birds ...
... fact that the males invariably precede the females by several days . In 1867 three London birdcatchers , between April 13 and May 2 , took 225 Night- ingales , and the whole of these , with five or six exceptions only , were cock birds ...
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... fact , of which we have satisfied ourselves repeatedly . Moreover , it is by no means the only bird to sing at night . The Sedge Warbler , Grasshopper Warbler , Wood- lark , Skylark , and Thrush , may often be heard long after sunset ...
... fact , of which we have satisfied ourselves repeatedly . Moreover , it is by no means the only bird to sing at night . The Sedge Warbler , Grasshopper Warbler , Wood- lark , Skylark , and Thrush , may often be heard long after sunset ...
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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