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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... 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 . The previous ...
... 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 . The previous ...
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... males leave off singing , and busy themselves in bringing food to the nest . The song generally ceases before the end of the first week in June . Occasionally , however , I have heard a Nightingale sing on through- out June , but ...
... males leave off singing , and busy themselves in bringing food to the nest . The song generally ceases before the end of the first week in June . Occasionally , however , I have heard a Nightingale sing on through- out June , but ...
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... male and the brown crown of the female suffice to distinguish the species amongst every other of our summer migrants ... males invariably arrive some days before the females ; but both sexes seem to leave the country much about the same ...
... male and the brown crown of the female suffice to distinguish the species amongst every other of our summer migrants ... males invariably arrive some days before the females ; but both sexes seem to leave the country much about the same ...
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... male and female bestow a good deal of trouble upon it . It is generally placed a few feet from the ground , and is composed of dry bents , and lined with horsehair . The eggs , usually five in number , are white clouded with pale brown ...
... male and female bestow a good deal of trouble upon it . It is generally placed a few feet from the ground , and is composed of dry bents , and lined with horsehair . The eggs , usually five in number , are white clouded with pale brown ...
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... quarter of an inch in length of wing , the male having the black crown which characterizes 1 Cf. " Handbook of British Birds , " p . 106 . our well - known songster , and resembling it generally 52 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
... quarter of an inch in length of wing , the male having the black crown which characterizes 1 Cf. " Handbook of British Birds , " p . 106 . our well - known songster , and resembling it generally 52 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
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Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1877 |
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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