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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... hatched in about a fortnight or rather more , and until fully fledged their appearance is singularly ugly . They are covered with a grey down , and their enormous mouths and large prominent eyes give them an expression which is almost ...
... hatched in about a fortnight or rather more , and until fully fledged their appearance is singularly ugly . They are covered with a grey down , and their enormous mouths and large prominent eyes give them an expression which is almost ...
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... hatched out , and the young reared , by the foster parents . The nests in which the Cuckoo's eggs are most frequently deposited are those of the Hedge Sparrow , Meadow Pipit , Pied Wagtail , and Reed Warbler , but according to Dr. Thie ...
... hatched out , and the young reared , by the foster parents . The nests in which the Cuckoo's eggs are most frequently deposited are those of the Hedge Sparrow , Meadow Pipit , Pied Wagtail , and Reed Warbler , but according to Dr. Thie ...
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... hatched and cared for ? If not ( and I believe such an event is not usual , if indeed it has ever been known to occur ) , then nothing has been gained by the selection of a Reed Wren's or Titlark's nest ( as the case may be ) , and the ...
... hatched and cared for ? If not ( and I believe such an event is not usual , if indeed it has ever been known to occur ) , then nothing has been gained by the selection of a Reed Wren's or Titlark's nest ( as the case may be ) , and the ...
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... hatched by other birds , but they mingled fact with fable , believing , or at all events asserting , that the young Cuckoo devoured not only its foster brothers and sisters , but ultimately its foster parents . Hence the expression ...
... hatched by other birds , but they mingled fact with fable , believing , or at all events asserting , that the young Cuckoo devoured not only its foster brothers and sisters , but ultimately its foster parents . Hence the expression ...
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... hatched , but not the Cuckoo . " At the next visit , which was after an interval of forty - eight hours , we found the young Cuckoo alone in the nest , and both the young Pipits lying down the bank , about ten inches from the quite ...
... hatched , but not the Cuckoo . " At the next visit , which was after an interval of forty - eight hours , we found the young Cuckoo alone in the nest , and both the young Pipits lying down the bank , about ten inches from the quite ...
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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