Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer in the British IslandsBickers and Son, 1875 - 336 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 6-10 de 27
Página 74
... grey colour of the head and back , relieved by a silvery white spot upon the forehead and a jet - black throat , contrasts strongly with the. ( Ruticilla phanicura . ) PRIGHTLY in its actions , and more vi- ( Salicaria phragmitis . ) The ...
... grey colour of the head and back , relieved by a silvery white spot upon the forehead and a jet - black throat , contrasts strongly with the. ( Ruticilla phanicura . ) PRIGHTLY in its actions , and more vi- ( Salicaria phragmitis . ) The ...
Página 109
... Grey Wagtail , whose haunts seem insepa- rable from the water - side . 1 For this abstract of Mr. Knox's observations , taken from his " Ornithological Rambles in Sussex , " I am indebted to Professor Newton , who has thus ably ...
... Grey Wagtail , whose haunts seem insepa- rable from the water - side . 1 For this abstract of Mr. Knox's observations , taken from his " Ornithological Rambles in Sussex , " I am indebted to Professor Newton , who has thus ably ...
Página 110
... grey back , while in the latter the black colour of the head merges in the black of the dorsal plumage and no such cap is discernible . In summer both species have the chin black , and in winter the same parts in both are white . In the ...
... grey back , while in the latter the black colour of the head merges in the black of the dorsal plumage and no such cap is discernible . In summer both species have the chin black , and in winter the same parts in both are white . In the ...
Página 111
... Europe , penetrating to the North Cape and even to Iceland , and travelling southward be- yond the Mediterranean into Africa , to within a few degrees of the equator . E THE GREY WAGTAIL . ( Motacilla sulphurea . ) THE WHITE WAGTAIL . III.
... Europe , penetrating to the North Cape and even to Iceland , and travelling southward be- yond the Mediterranean into Africa , to within a few degrees of the equator . E THE GREY WAGTAIL . ( Motacilla sulphurea . ) THE WHITE WAGTAIL . III.
Página 112
... GREY WAGTAIL . ( Motacilla sulphurea . ) XCEPT for the purpose of a momentary comparison , it would be beyond the scope of the present volume to notice the Grey Wag- tail here , for this bird does not come under the definition of a ...
... GREY WAGTAIL . ( Motacilla sulphurea . ) XCEPT for the purpose of a momentary comparison , it would be beyond the scope of the present volume to notice the Grey Wag- tail here , for this bird does not come under the definition of a ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
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 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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