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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... 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. ( Sylvia atricapilla . ) IVE species THE NIGHTINGALE . 43.
... 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. ( Sylvia atricapilla . ) IVE species THE NIGHTINGALE . 43.
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... haunts of men , " they appear to be nowhere more at home than in our gardens and orchards . The reason is obvious as soon as we become acquainted with their habits , and the nature of their food . We then discover that their motives are ...
... haunts of men , " they appear to be nowhere more at home than in our gardens and orchards . The reason is obvious as soon as we become acquainted with their habits , and the nature of their food . We then discover that their motives are ...
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... haunts . The males invariably arrive some days before the females ; but both sexes seem to leave the country much about the same time - that is , early in September . The nests of all the species in the genus Sylvia 48 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
... haunts . The males invariably arrive some days before the females ; but both sexes seem to leave the country much about the same time - that is , early in September . The nests of all the species in the genus Sylvia 48 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
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... 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 arrive also about the same time- namely , the third week in April ; and by the end ...
... 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 arrive also about the same time- namely , the third week in April ; and by the end ...
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... haunts which it affects in this country are generally not far removed from human habitation , and it is not unusual to find the nest , containing five or six pale - blue eggs , upon a peach or plum - tree against a wall ; upon a cross ...
... haunts which it affects in this country are generally not far removed from human habitation , and it is not unusual to find the nest , containing five or six pale - blue eggs , upon a peach or plum - tree against a wall ; upon a cross ...
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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